egg roll

noun

: a thin egg-dough casing filled with minced vegetables and often bits of meat (such as shrimp or chicken) and usually deep-fried

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Then, stop for cheese nibbles at Sweet Grass Cheese Shop or Farmer’s Daughter Vineyards tasting room, or head straight to dinner at Chop House on the Bricks for oysters topped with pimiento cheese, duck tacos, and lobster egg rolls. Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 13 July 2025 And that your go-to order there is the crawfish egg rolls. Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025 The White House Easter egg roll on Monday will use 30,000 real eggs. Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025 The White House Easter egg roll dates back to 1878, when President Rutherford B. Hayes opened the South Lawn to children for Easter Monday festivities after egg rolling on Capitol grounds was banned. Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 21 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for egg roll

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First Known Use

1934, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of egg roll was in 1934

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“Egg roll.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/egg%20roll. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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egg roll

noun
: a thin egg-dough casing filled with minced vegetables and often bits of meat (as shrimp or pork) and usually deep-fried
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