Meaning of rotten egg | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who is the latest, the last, or the slowest in a group to arrive somewhere or to perform a certain task.
   childish, humorous, idiomatic, slang
2. An egg (“closeted transgender person”) who overcompensates by being actively transphobic.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rotten, egg.

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Examples

“Last one there is a rotten egg!”

“This barbaric punishment consisted of chasing the victim all over the school yard, everybody screaming “Rotten egg! Rotten egg!” and pretending to throw missiles.”

“Or because they themselves experience gender dysphoria but have gone down the rotten egg path.”

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