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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
beauty contest
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 audience were mostly farmers.
▪ Just like the outside world, only in a beauty contest you are more aware of it!
▪ Most interviewers did their jobs like judges at a beauty contest.
▪ The play is set in a seedy northern beauty contest, which gives Paula the chance to use her original Mancunian accent.
Wiktionary
beauty contest

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

Wikipedia
Beauty contest (disambiguation)

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 Rugrats
  • Beauty Pageant (Parks and Recreation), an episode from the television series Parks and Recreation

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.