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EGG ON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does egg on mean?
• EGG ON (verb)
The verb EGG ON has 1 sense:
1. urge on; cause to act
Familiarity information: EGG ON used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Urge on; cause to act
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
Context example:
The other children egged the boy on, but he did not want to throw the stone through the window
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "egg on"):
goose (prod into action)
halloo (urge on with shouts)
goad (urge with or as if with a goad)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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