Usually means: Eggs cooked in gently boiling water.
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  1. soft boiled: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. soft-boiled: Merriam-Webster
  3. soft-boiled: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. soft-boiled: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. soft-boiled, soft-boiled: Collins English Dictionary
  6. soft-boiled: Vocabulary.com
  7. soft-boiled: Wordnik
  8. soft-boiled, soft boiled: Wiktionary
  9. soft-boiled: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. soft-boiled: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. soft-boiled: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. soft-boiled, soft boiled: Dictionary.com
  13. soft-boiled: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Soft Boiled: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. soft-boiled: Rhymezone
  16. soft-boiled: FreeDictionary.org
  17. soft-boiled: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. soft-boiled: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Soft boiled)

▸ adjective:  Alternative spelling of soft-boiled [(of a boiled egg) cooked to a soft consistency with the yolk still runny]

Similar:
cooked, softhearted, softboiled, hardboiled, sunny-side up, semi-soft, eggshaped, eggbound, sunnyside up, precooked, more...

Opposite:
hard boiled, fully cooked, well done

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Similar:
cooked, softhearted, softboiled, hardboiled, sunny-side up, semi-soft, eggshaped, eggbound, sunnyside up, precooked, more...

Opposite:
hard boiled, fully cooked, well done



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