Handegg

Quick meaning: Handegg is a noun meaning (slang, countable, humorous) The ball used to play such a game.

Meaning

(slang, countable, humorous) The ball used to play such a game.

More Meanings

1. (slang, uncountable, humorous) Any of the sports that are called football but are played mainly with the hands and with a prolate spheroid ball; that is, American football and (less often) Canadian, Australian and rugby football (including league and union varieties).

Example Sentences

Yes, but would anyone show up for a game of handegg?

When I get there he was watching handegg. I’m not into that hand egg shit so we got into a heated argument on which was better.

You're wrong, kids all around the world play football, it just takes a ball and a pair of sneakers, whereas handegg requires a full body armour.

Football is certainly a misnomer, for the game is played not with the feet but with the hands, and the ball is not a ball but an egg. I propose that the game be played with the feet and with a ball, or else that it be called “hand-egg”.

Word Forms

• handeggs
• hand-egg

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hand-egg, eggball, handball, handpass, footy, nutmeg.

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