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Definition of: booby
(b
′bē) noun plural boo·bies
1. A dull fellow; dunce.
2. In some games, the person who makes the poorest score.
3. A gannet or swimming bird of warm seas related to the pelican, especially Sula piscator of the coasts of the tropical and subtropical Americas: named from its apparent stupidity. [<Sp. bobo fool <L balbus stupid, dull]
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