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Wiktionary

  1. n. Disdainful remark directed at someone deemed worthless or undesirable.
  2. n. professional wrestling slang A preliminary wrestler; a jobber.
  3. n. an ordinary person; a simpleton
  4. n. a failure of a boxer that couln't make it big; a tomato can

Examples

  • “* Dater summed it up today like this: "He seemed more like your basic ham-and-egger type of player, but with a filet mignon contract.”

    The Washington Post: Get to know new Caps defenseman Scott Hannan

  • “In Jake Brigance, you find the distillation of Grisham's own experience as a small-town ham-and-egger around the De Soto County courthouse.”

    Newsweek: Book 'Em

  • “Go to mass, mind your parents, marry the hardworking boy, the ordinary boy, the ham-and-egger they used to say.”

    Simon & Schuster: Underworld

  • “CBS' NCAA hoops coverage, MSG put the squeeze on him, treating Johnson like some ham-and-egger.”

    NY Daily News

  • “Even after a stellar career at BU, where he graduated as the second-highest scorer in school history, he was told he was too small to make the National Hockey League, wasn't fast enough, just a ham-and-egger.”

    Boston.com Most Popular

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