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laid eggs

laid eggs is the simple past and past participle of lay eggs.

Meaning of lay eggs

Verb

lay eggs (third-person singular simple present lays eggs, present participle laying eggs, simple past and past participle laid eggs)

  1. (idiomatic) To produce a string of failures or flops.
    • Despite his dictum that “when you get a sex story in biblical garb, you can open your own mint,” this particular turkey was laying eggs all over America.1991, Peter Hay, Movie Anecdotes, page 111

Questions about laid eggs

What is laid eggs the simple past and past participle of?
Laid eggs is the simple past and past participle of lay eggs.

Words near laid eggs in the dictionary

  1. laid down one's arms
  2. laid down one's life
  3. laid down one's weapons
  4. laid down the law
  5. laid down the marker
  6. laid eggs
  7. laid eyes on
  8. laid for
  9. laid hands on
  10. laid hold on
  11. laid hold upon

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