Overall poor perfomance. Not meeting ones goals, screwing up, missing plays.
I was laying eggs out there on the court, missing all those shots.
by E Style November 23, 2006
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A statement implying that Utsuho Reiuji from the Touhou Project series lays eggs (as she is a bird)

this is also used as one of UtsuhoRocks' catchphrases who popularized the phrase
UtsuhoRocks: Utsuho Lays Eggs
by Unyuron March 18, 2021
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A common response to something so horrible, annoying, disgusting, and/or crazy that it needs to be killed before it makes more of itself, hence "lays eggs."
*watches "E.T. (Cover) Katy Perry..." on YouTube*
KILL IT BEFORE IT LAYS EGGS!
by DameonDice April 15, 2012
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When someone says this it's a reference to an individual so stupid, annoying, etc that it should not be existing and is better off being killed before it reproduces (before it lays eggs = before it makes more of itself/ has youngsters as annoying/stupid as itself)
Guy 1: KARGJATA

Guy 2: Kill it before it lays eggs
by NIS May 8, 2013
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to do something poorly, usually regarding some sort of physical activity; bomb it
I'm gonna lay an egg during our mile run today.
by whatserface December 18, 2008
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to fail to make people enjoy or be interested in something.
Our first two sketches got big laughs, but the next two laid an egg. (Lay an egg used in the past tense, laid an egg)
by Jenkins! June 14, 2008
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