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goose egg

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goose egg 
1. Fig. a raised bump on the skull as when one's head has been struck. I walked into the edge of the door and got a terrible goose egg.
2. Fig. in a sports score, zero. At the end of the game there was nothing but goose eggs next to our name.
See also: egg, goose


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Tis one of them Yale lads celebratin' the goose egg they give to the Hartford College.
 
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