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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