Definitions for blue-ribbon

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blue-ribbon blue-rib·bon

Spelling: [bloo-rib-uh n]

IPA: /ˈbluˈrɪb ən/

Blue-Ribbon is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 337 anagrams from letters in blue-ribbon (-bbbeilnoru).

Definitions for blue-ribbon

noun

1. the highest award or distinction, as the first prize in a contest:
2. a blue ribbon worn as a badge of honor, especially by members of the Order of the Garter of the British knighthood.
3. (initial capital letters). Also, British, Blue Ribband. (formerly) a prize awarded to an ocean liner making the fastest recorded trip across the Atlantic Ocean between Ambrose Lightship and Bishop Rock.
4. a badge used by some temperance organizations to indicate a pledge of abstinence from alcohol.

adjective

1. of superior quality or prominence; first-rate; specially selected:

Origin of blue-ribbon

First recorded in 1925-30; adj. use of blue ribbon

Examples for blue-ribbon

I rode on Mrs. Scot-Williams' beautiful, black, blue-ribbon winner.

Our Annual Handicap is the blue-ribbon event of the year so far as most of us are concerned.

If I'm nothing else, I'm blue-ribbon boy on the health question.

I'll order the cart around and show you that blue-ribbon cob I bought at the horse show.

Its a blue-ribbon place or Moretense wouldnt have besieged Miss Remson to let her in here.

Unfortunately that responsibility will fall to yet another Washington, D.C., blue-ribbon commission.

"Think it is like the blue-ribbon army," he said, when he returned to Netty's side.

No one can do it for them—not pollsters, not blue-ribbon commissions, not even elections.

If I see her every day I shall have seen the blue-ribbon winner.

Establishing a blue-ribbon commission in the midst of scandal is a time-honored Washington tradition.