goose egg

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

goose egg
    n 1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had
         ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had
         done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for
         naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: {nothing},
         {nil}, {nix}, {nada}, {null}, {aught}, {cipher}, {cypher},
         {goose egg}, {naught}, {zero}, {zilch}, {zip}, {zippo}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Goose egg \Goose egg\
   1. In games, a zero; a score or record of naught; -- so named
      in allusion to the egglike outline of the zero sign 0.
      Called also {duck egg}. [Slang]
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   2. A bump on the skin caused by a blow, especially one on the
      head.
      [PJC]

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