Usually means: Intrusive egg laid in another's nest.
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General (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cuckoo's Egg, The Cuckoo's Egg: Dictionary.com
  2. Cuckoo's Egg, The Cuckoo's Egg, The Cuckoo's Egg (book), The Cuckoos Egg: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. cuckoo's egg: Wiktionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cuckoo's Egg, The Cuckoo's Egg: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Cuckoo's Egg, The Cuckoo's Egg, The Cuckoo's Egg (book): Encyclopedia

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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CUCKOO'S EGG: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (cuckoo's egg)

noun:  Anything harmful that is infiltrated into a place in order to develop and emerge there.

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