parting gift

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parting gift (plural parting gifts)

  1. A gift given to someone who is leaving; a leaving present.
  2. An offering given, usually as a consolation prize, to a person who is not the ultimate winner of a contest. Often used in a game show for contestants who are not the grand prize winner.
    Like a game show contestant with a parting gift. I could not believe my eyes. - Blues Traveler, Runaround
  3. A final attack or insult by a departing enemy.
    • 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 33:34 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?‎[1], archived from the original on 3 November 2022:
      In the air, some aircraft are using their loads of small 100-pound bombs and their gun armament to try and disrupt or detonate torpedoes launched by Japanese destroyers and cruisers as parting gifts, with some degree of success.

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