"handegg" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈhændɛɡ/ Audio: En-au-handegg.ogg [Australia] Forms: handeggs [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛɡ Etymology: From hand + egg, by contrast to football meaning “soccer”, with the notion that the respective sports are “neither foot nor ball” due to the predominant use of the hands and the elongated form of the ball. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|hand|egg}} hand + egg, {{m|en|football}} football Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} handegg (countable and uncountable, plural handeggs)
  1. (slang, uncountable, humorous) Any of the sports that are called football but are played mainly with the hands and with a prolate spheroid ball; that is, American football and (less often) Canadian and Australian football. Tags: humorous, slang, uncountable Categories (topical): Football (American)
    Sense id: en-handegg-en-noun-pBgF5vsj Disambiguation of Football (American): 78 22 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 85 15 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 87 13
  2. (slang, countable, humorous) The ball used to play such a game. Tags: countable, humorous, slang
    Sense id: en-handegg-en-noun-4eiMUDBy
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: hand-egg Derived forms: American handegg

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