Word info

beauty contest

Noun

Meaning

A competition in which participants compete for a determination that one is the most physically attractive.
Synonym: beauty pageant

(business) A tender in which bidders are ranked according to some (known or secret) criteria.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Balu called a beauty contest, which Sanam had been part of, “worthless.” Source: Internet

The FBI wanted to arrest Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 in the U.S. Virgin Islands while he was judging a beauty contest but it did not — in a missed opportunity the buruea’s supervisory special agent was “extremely upset” about. Source: Internet

It looks like they are either at a beauty contest or maybe a fashion show. Source: Internet

This sounds very much like another version of the British super-nanny attitude where all it takes in a stiff-upper lip and VOILA! and Sarah will eat her nice food and the Germans will stop bombing London and Margaret Thatcher will win a beauty contest. Source: Internet

Many central Iowans have childhood memories of taking a walk on the Boardwalk, playing Monopoly and winning second prize in a beauty contest — as well as the phony $10 prize that came with it. Source: Internet

Often it would appear as if Gladstone had the upper hand in winning Daisy due to his luck, only to find fate thwarts his plans, such as a contest where the man who hunts the most turkeys gets to have dinner with Daisy, who has won a beauty contest. Source: Internet

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