ham and eggs

1. 1.

   eggs (scrambled or fried) served with ham

   Broaderdish

Questions about ham and eggs

What does ham and eggs mean?

ham and eggs means "eggs (scrambled or fried) served with ham".

Is ham and eggs a common word?

ham and eggs is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.