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duck egg

Goose egg \Goose egg\

  1. In games, a zero; a score or record of naught; -- so named in allusion to the egglike outline of the zero sign 0. Called also duck egg. [Slang]

  2. A bump on the skin caused by a blow, especially one on the head.

Usage examples of "duck egg".

Outside, duck egg-green shadows lay on the snow, the stars were brilliant in the clear, frosty night.

There was even a duck egg left over, half-buried in the weeds that the ducks had made into a nest.

The hard soil was covered with stones, mostly flat and about the size of a duck egg sliced the long way.

Her head tilted happily back, like a sparrow egg perched on a duck egg, she smiled into the sun.