bad egg

1. 1.

   (old-fashioned slang) a bad person

   Antonymsgood egg

   Broaderbad person

   slang

Questions about bad egg

What does bad egg mean?

bad egg means "(old-fashioned slang) a bad person".

What is the opposite of bad egg?

The recorded antonyms are good egg.

Is bad egg a common word?

bad egg is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.