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good eggs

good eggs is the plural of good egg.

Meaning of good egg

Noun

good egg (plural good eggs)

  1. (UK, US, idiomatic) A good person, someone to be trusted; a friend.
    • The chemist and the bacteriologist gave him the third degree and, like most criminals, it was found difficult to tell just when a good egg began to be bad, and it appeared that it depended largely on how he was handled, especially in his youth, […]1915, Good Housekeeping, volume 6, New York, N.Y.: Phelps Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 371
    Antonyms:
    bad egg

Questions about good eggs

What is good eggs the plural of?
Good eggs is the plural of good egg.

Words near good eggs in the dictionary

  1. good doctor
  2. good doctors
  3. good drunk
  4. good drunks
  5. good egg
  6. good eggs
  7. good ending
  8. good endings
  9. good enough
  10. good enough for government work
  11. good enough for jazz

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