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Definition of Eggheads
1. egghead [n] - See also: egghead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eggheads
Literary usage of Eggheads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. WMD Machete by Mark Plimsoll (2006)
"Young eggheads around the world examined other nations as ... This led some
eggheads to the idea of the Universal Yolk. After a varied number of failed ..."
2. Aeronautics Innovation: Nasa's Challenges and Opportunities by Stephen A. Merrill (2006)
""As a result of TMA success, the FAA decided we weren't solely eggheads. We've
jointly developed a ground management system that is being implemented at ..."
3. Tanzania Revisited: Political Stability, Aid Dependency and Development by Ulf Engel, Gero Erdmann, Andreas Mehler (2000)
"Even if Tanzanian capacities are in place to design such programmes - I have no
doubts that a few brilliant local eggheads could do it - the management ..."
4. Americans by Stuart Pratt Sherman (1922)
"Perhaps also "shovel-stiffs," "work-plugs," "hoosegow," and "exhausted eggheads"
would be familiar to them. But I think they would gasp and stare at ..."
5. Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians by Michael Matthew Kaylor (2006)
"... the poem 'Jabberwocky' — though eventually in Through the Looking-Glass she
will have its problematic diction explained by the most famous of eggheads, ..."
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