Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thief, especially a burglar or safecracker.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
yeggman .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun cant, slang A person who breaks open safes; a burglar.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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After the jump: The definition of "yegg"; teenagers are cruel and unbearable; mutants really seem to cheese people off; and other life lessons kids learn from comics.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Eight months ago, any yegg with the ability to execute a financial transaction was a genius, but the bubble that burst in Q4 was the result of 8 years of Bush economic policy that can be summed up thus: reckless deregulation.
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You need to check in at yegg central for some new lines.
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Eight months ago, any yegg with the ability to execute a financial transaction wa ...
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Eight months ago, any yegg with the ability to execute a financial transaction wa ...
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Thus I gained a deep devotion for our language undented, and it drives me nearly batty when I hear my only child springing wads of hard boiled language such as dips and yegg-men use, and I want a reformation or
Rippling Rhymes Walt Mason
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You can't believe that I'm not simply an ordinary yegg, like the rest of the crooks you used to know.
The Gem Collector 1928
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"And what the devil do you want with Miss Chester, you slimy, crawling second-story-worker, you damned, oily yegg?" enquired
Piccadilly Jim 1928
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That's one of the most notorious yegg-men on the other side.
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And is it likely that a baronet -- _with_ money, mind you -- is going to carry on the yegg business as a side line?
The Gem Collector 1928
geekwad commented on the word yegg
Curses on you for getting here first and congratulations, oplyse. I love this word.
January 8, 2007
trivet commented on the word yegg
safecracker / burglar / thief
April 25, 2007
yarb commented on the word yegg
Down round Corlear's Hook and Hell's Kitchen there were all these dives so dangerous that God-fearing citizens would shit to think of them - Cat Alley, the Lava Pit, the Tub of Blood - spawning grifters and shysters and banco artists, second-storey men, gun-molls and gangsters and lushes and hypos, hopheads, yeggs, sirens, dames...
- Elizabeth Young, Shrinking
September 10, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word yegg
cf. yeggman
January 11, 2009