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HARD-BOILED EGG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hard-boiled egg mean? 

HARD-BOILED EGG (noun)
  The noun HARD-BOILED EGG has 1 sense:

1. an egg boiled gently until both the white and the yolk solidifyplay

  Familiarity information: HARD-BOILED EGG used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HARD-BOILED EGG (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An egg boiled gently until both the white and the yolk solidify

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

hard-boiled egg; hard-cooked egg

Hypernyms ("hard-boiled egg" is a kind of...):

boiled egg; coddled egg (egg cooked briefly in the shell in gently boiling water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hard-boiled egg"):

Easter egg (a colored hard-boiled egg used to celebrate Easter)


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