Easter-egg hunt

A form of Easter egg hunt — A common festive activity held at Easter, where Easter eggs are hidden outdoors or indoors for children to run around and seek (sometimes held as a contest to see who can collect the most eggs).

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Meanings

nounEaster-egg hunt (plural Easter-egg hunts)

plural Easter-egg hunts

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Easter egg hunt.

    There we began the beach season with an Easter-egg hunt that no one else in my circle could duplicate.

    2000, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, “Reading Tejana, Reading Chicana”, in Feminism on the Border: Chicana Gender Politics and Literature, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 7
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    Coralee, make sure Anne knows that her daddy and I will be home in time to take you children to school for the Easter-egg hunt.

    1959 March, Lawrent Lee, “Frisky and Frosty”, in Jane Palmer, editor, Wee Wisdom: A Magazine for Boys and Girls, volume LXV, number 8, Lee’s Summit, Mo.: Unity School of Christianity, page 14, column 1

    Easter-egg hunts are exciting races held on Easter Sunday each year. […] ◀ Looking for Easter eggs on an Easter-egg hunt.

    1998, Teresa Fisher, “Easter”, in A Flavour of France (Food and Festivals), Hove, East Sussex: Wayland Publishers Limited, →ISBN, page 21
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