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blue_ribbon
blue ribbon
English
Alternative forms
- blue-ribbon (attributive use)
Noun
blue ribbon (plural blue ribbons)
- The highest honor or prize awarded in some competitions and contests.
- Mom's strawberry jam won the blue ribbon at the Holland County Fair three years running.
- Farrar
- These [scholarships] were the blue ribbon of the college.
- A badge worn or displayed to advocate freedom from online censorship.
- The icon of the blue ribbon on her site should not be taken to mean she opposes parental filtration programs.
Adjective
- Very superior in quality, style, or substance.
- The governor selected a cadre of blue ribbon social scientists to serve on her poverty task force.