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

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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."

    Get to know new Caps defenseman Scott Hannan Lindsay Applebaum 2010

  • 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.

    Book 'Em 2008

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

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

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

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

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

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

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

    NY Daily News Bob Raissman 2010

  • 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 2010

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