partinggift (pluralparting gifts)

1. Agift given to someone who is leaving; aleaving present.
2. Anoffering given, usually as aconsolation prize, to a person who is not the ultimate winner of a contest. Often used in agame show for contestants who are not thegrand prize winner.

   Like a game show contestant with aparting gift. I could not believe my eyes. -Blues Traveler,Runaround

3. Afinalattack orinsult by adepartingenemy.
   • 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 33:34 from the start, inThe Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?‎^[1], archived fromthe original on3 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 asparting gifts, with some degree of success.