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The sweet smell of zero, dressed up to sound like breakfast.
means A score of zero, especially in sports or games — and also slang for the lump that rises on your head after a bump.
from From the visual pun: the numeral 0 looks like an egg, and 'goose egg' was a jokey early-1800s Americanism for it, since a goose's egg is notably big and round — a fat zero, literally. The same shape-logic gave us the slang for a bump on the head, which swells up round and smooth like, well, an egg.
- origin
- 1860s American slang, shape of 0 resembles an egg
- usage
- means a score of nothing, not an actual egg
- cousin term
- also slang for a bump on the head
- sports staple
- common in baseball and hockey box scores