The Collaborative International Dictionary
egg beater \egg beater\, egg-beater \egg-beater\n. a small device having one or usually two blades, each having several stiff oval wires at the tip. The blades are swirled or rotated for beating eggs or whipping cream. The electrical variety typically have two such blades, which are arranged so that the tips of the blades interlace while rotating.
Syn: eggwhisk.
Usage examples of "egg beater".
The silver cream jug, her extra hot-water bottle, an egg beater, a cake tin tied with string in which she had put her store of tea, some biscuits, a packet of Ryvita, and six tins of sardines.
The gadget was a gayly-colored egg beater with four-dimensional attachments, and it talked in a thin, high voice.
The result was a thing vaguely resembling a gun, though it had some resemblance to an egg beater.
Gamay was limping, her beautiful dark red hair looked as if it had been caught in an egg beater, and her arms and legs were marked with angry bruises.
I once investigated a case in which the murder weapon was an egg beater.
We'll go up in the egg beater and keep watch for a pigeon coming from the ocean and heading southwest.
He'll go home and try develop a haywire egg beater, and finish up playing with it while in Fawcett's care.