scrambled egg

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scrambled eggs

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Noun

scrambled egg (countable and uncountable, plural scrambled eggs)

  1. (usually in the plural) A dish made by beating and cooking eggs, sometimes mixed with milk.
  2. (slang) The gold braid worn on the cap of an officer in the armed forces etc.
    • 1971, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather (screenplay, third draft)
      A massive POLICE CAPTAIN, spattered with gold braid and scrambled eggs on his hat, with beefy red face and white hair seems furious.

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