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beauty contest

Word definitions for beauty contest in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ College football is as much a beauty contest as it is a game. ▪ Dave Simpson's adult comedy, set in a beauty contest , returns to Liverpool after a successful run last year. ▪ He said he had been to a beauty contest where the ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A beauty contest is a competition based mainly on the physical beauty of its contestants. Beauty contest may also refer to: Keynesian beauty contest , a concept in economics and game theory Beauty Contest (Rugrats) , an episode from the animated series ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A competition in which participants compete for a determination that one is the most physically attractive.

Usage examples of beauty contest.

He presided as judge at a beauty contest in Atlantic City, the winner to be awarded a screen test by Cosmo-Slotnick.

The following morning, Ovid Ross turned in His story and pictures on the bust-beauty contest and gave notice.

It was a beauty contest, within the definition of the term you were given.

Unlike a Klingon, this humanoid was pale skinned and made any Klingon look like a beauty contest winner.

I did not discuss the source of my notion, which was the dream of the ifrits' beauty contest, because I did not believe that was relevant.

When we get right down to it, what we end up with is a frigging beauty contest.

I pondered the dream, and recognized it: It was from the depths of my childhood memory, a tale of sorcery, in which ifrits had had a beauty contest, each believing that the person he or she had discovered was the most beautiful in all the world.