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scrambled egg; scrambled eggs
noun- the gold braid insignia on an officer’s cap or uniform UK, 1943
- They have stripes on the sleeves, scrambled eggs on the peak of the cap and blue socks with yellow stripes. — Jim Bouton, Ball Four, p. 98, 1970
- I made him put on his hat. It had a bunch of gold braid, which he called scrambled eggs, on its visor. — Delle Brehan, Kicks is Kicks, p. 80, 1970
- the Commandant, with the rank of Commander and a lot of scrambled egg on his shoulders. — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 51, 2002
- mental confusion or mental illness US
- red Gil was lying there looking at his littlest daughter, perhaps a bit dazed from the medication, when she said, “Dad, you don’t have scrambled eggs, do you?” — Joseph Wambaugh, Lines and Shadows, p. 190, 1984
- in street luge, poor road conditions US
- SCRAMBLED EGGS Road conditions that are bad but usable. — Shelley Youngblut, Way Inside ESPN’s X Games, p. 130, 1998
▶ have scrambled eggs
to be drunk UK
Rhyming slang for, “scrambled” (out of control) legs.- — Ray Puxley, Cockney Rabbit, 1992
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