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

or less commonly 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

or less commonly 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

Abrams is fantastic as the bumbling protagonist, and Cregger injects a healthy dose of humor, gore, Easter eggs, and scares into the new adaptation. — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026

The packaging also includes Easter eggs for eagle-eyed Goosebumps fans. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026

The premiere is easy enough to grasp, as the horror maestro has connected his disparate novels and stories for decades — sometimes explicitly, sometimes with just an Easter egg. — Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2026

In doing so, the sketch also delivered a bevy of Easter eggs, which Emmy producers Jesse Collins and Jeannae Rouzan-Clay confirmed are, in fact, real. — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1572, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for Easter egg

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