A prize fighter whose modest skills won't let him/her win large purses. So, their manager (who gets a percentage of purses won) will never be able to afford to eat better than ham & eggs. (No steaks!)
That ham and egger! He got KO'd in the second by some stumblebum.
An amateur. Primarily and athlete, posing as a professional, but not quite up to that caliber. It's a slurred, "code" name for Amateur. Hence: Am - A - Teur = Ham -And - Egger.
1940's Ringside Announcer: "This guy's just a hamneggr (ham and egger)."
An agricultural term used to describe a livestock facility in which pigs (porcus fattae) and chickens (poultus eggae) are raised in close quarters, often resulting in symbiosis between the twoanimal species.
"much to his consternation, farmer boggs awoke at the crack of dawn for the fifth consecutive morning to a cacophone of cocks' crows and fevered oinking."