Easter egg

noun

plural Easter eggs

1

: an egg that is dyed and sometimes decorated and that is associated with the celebration of Easter

2

sometimes Easter Egg or easter egg plural Easter Eggs or easter eggs : a hidden feature in a commercially released product (such as software or a DVD)

3

sometimes Easter Egg or easter egg : a usually subtle callback (see callback sense 3) included to please fans

They certainly didn't disappoint …, littering the movie with a bunch of fun Easter eggs for fans of the video games and other cool inside jokes.

—Craig Flaster

Examples of Easter egg in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The city’s signature palm trees stand tall, while Easter eggs like the sweeping searchlights of a Hollywood premiere reveal themselves on a second glance. —Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2025

Readers will love collecting Easter eggs from the 1939 movie scattered throughout this moving story about family secrets and the enduring power of love. —Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 17 June 2025

To celebrate the series' successful run, Heald, Hurwitz, and Schlossberg shared some of their favorite final-season Easter eggs with Entertainment Weekly. —EW.com, 16 June 2025

But there are plenty of Easter eggs along the way to help the audience understand what's going on. —Ashley Boucher, EW.com, 6 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1572, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for Easter egg

• beg
• clegg
• keg
• leg
• legg
• meg
• peg
• reg
• blackleg
• bootleg
• foreleg
• mpeg