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ham-and-egger
noun- in professional wrestling, a wrestler whose regular role is to lose to help the careers of others US
A slight variation on the boxing original. - Naively, I expected to be furnished with the vital statistics of every wrestler, including the unknown ham and eggers who got pounded by the stars for TV. — Larry Nelson and Jim Jones, Stranglehold, p. 42, 1999
- in oil drilling, an operator who has suffered loss after loss and is now burdened with poor credit US
- — Jerry Robertson, Oil Slanguage, p. 63, 1954
- an inconsequential person who has achieved little US, 1985
- You’ve got out-and-out ham-and-eggers running around today claiming they’re world champions, but on a five-by-ten in the olden days, they wouldn’t have beat Frank the Drunk, who cleaned toilets at Kreuter’s. — Minnesota Fats, The Bank Shot, p. 88, 1966
- “Got himself this bunch of ham-and-eggers and he sends them down where he does his business and he goes away.” — George Higgins, Cogan’s Trade, p. 108, 1974
- “Who is this jerk?” I say. “Why is he on this? Little ham-and-egger here, everybody knows him.” — George V. Higgins, Penance for Jerry Kennedy, p. 234, 1985
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