Usually means: Egg with sulfur, smells bad.
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  1. rotten-egg: Merriam-Webster
  2. rotten-egg: Wordnik
  3. rotten egg: Wiktionary
  4. Rotten egg: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. rotten egg: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (rotten egg)

noun:  (slang, idiomatic, humorous, childish) A person who is the latest, the last, or the slowest in a group to arrive somewhere or to perform a certain task.
noun:  (chiefly transgender slang) An egg (“closeted transgender person”) who overcompensates by being actively transphobic.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rotten, egg.

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