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Goose egg

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Zero; nothing. Canada, US, informal

    "I missed every question on the quiz and got a goose egg."

  2. 2
    a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential wordnet
  3. 3
    A swelling caused by a bump on the head. informal

Etymology

From the oval shape of both a goose's egg and the Arabic numeral zero (0).

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