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darwin award

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English

Syllables
dar-win award
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One of the international honours awarded to people who supposedly help to improve the human gene pool by removing themselves from it in a spectacularly stupid manner.

Humorous

Usage

Inflected Forms

Darwin Awards (plural)

Phrases

Darwin out Herman Cain Award Leopards Eating People's Faces Party natural selection Nobel Prize survival of the fittest

Frequently Paired Words

autodarwinate Darwinism Darwin out FAFO Herman Cain Award Leopards Eating People's Faces Party natural selection Nobel Prize

Questions

What does darwin award mean?
One of the international honours awarded to people who supposedly help to improve the human gene pool by removing themselves from it in a spectacularly stupid manner.

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