door prize
a prize awarded by lottery at an event
TRANSLATION
door prize = ein Gastgeschenk --- GOOGLE INDEX door prize: approximately 2,700,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
The group will discuss all the latest news around town and as always there will be refreshments and a DOOR PRIZE.
(www.patch.com)
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I was lucky enough to win the second DOOR PRIZE, it was their first single, a 45 record "Love Me Do". I got to go on stage to collect it. Later that night someone I knew asked if I wanted the record autographed. I said OK and we went down behind the stage to the dressing room. All the group signed the record. I was made up.
(BBC recollections of the Beatle's first concerts in Wales in 1963)
(www.patch.com)
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I was lucky enough to win the second DOOR PRIZE, it was their first single, a 45 record "Love Me Do". I got to go on stage to collect it. Later that night someone I knew asked if I wanted the record autographed. I said OK and we went down behind the stage to the dressing room. All the group signed the record. I was made up.
(BBC recollections of the Beatle's first concerts in Wales in 1963)
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door prize
noun phrase
- a prize awarded by lottery to the holder of a ticket purchased at or before a function
(American Heritage Dictionary)
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The idea behind the door prize is to create an incentive for people to attend an organised event. Door prizes can be found at small functions, such as a local club meeting, as well as at large events like concerts. They are called door prizes because participants are usually given lottery or drawing tickets "at the door" when they arrive for an event.
Lottery or drawing type prizes can be won in various ways:
- tombola = a lottery in which tickets are drawn from a revolving drum
- lucky dip = a game in which prizes (e.g., candies or coins) are concealed in a container and for a small sum a player can draw one out at random
- raffle = a lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money
- sweepstakes = a lottery in which the prize consists of the money paid by the participants
Door prizes are not always what one might wish for, like the man who won a toilet brush at the church bingo club. As he left the church with his prize, the pastor said "What in heaven's name is that? The man replied, "What does it look like? It's a toilet brush!
A few weeks later the pastor met the man on the street and jokingly asked how the new toilet brush was working out. The man said, "It's okay, but I think I'll go back to using paper again."
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"You won't entice anyone to attend the event by awarding lollipops as door prizes."
noun phrase
- a prize awarded by lottery to the holder of a ticket purchased at or before a function
(American Heritage Dictionary)
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The idea behind the door prize is to create an incentive for people to attend an organised event. Door prizes can be found at small functions, such as a local club meeting, as well as at large events like concerts. They are called door prizes because participants are usually given lottery or drawing tickets "at the door" when they arrive for an event.
Lottery or drawing type prizes can be won in various ways:
- tombola = a lottery in which tickets are drawn from a revolving drum
- lucky dip = a game in which prizes (e.g., candies or coins) are concealed in a container and for a small sum a player can draw one out at random
- raffle = a lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money
- sweepstakes = a lottery in which the prize consists of the money paid by the participants
Door prizes are not always what one might wish for, like the man who won a toilet brush at the church bingo club. As he left the church with his prize, the pastor said "What in heaven's name is that? The man replied, "What does it look like? It's a toilet brush!
A few weeks later the pastor met the man on the street and jokingly asked how the new toilet brush was working out. The man said, "It's okay, but I think I'll go back to using paper again."
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"You won't entice anyone to attend the event by awarding lollipops as door prizes."
