yegg

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Noun

yegg (plural yeggs)

  1. (cant, slang) A person who breaks open safes; a burglar.
    • 1904, Edwin S. Porter (director), Capture of the ‘Yegg’ Bank Burglars
    • 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider ”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A Munsey Company, , published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 2:
      She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
    • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 265:
      ‘These racketeers are a new type. We think about them the way we think about old time yeggs or needled-up punks.’

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yegg (third-person singular simple present yeggs, present participle yegging, simple past and past participle yegged)

  1. (slang) To rob.

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