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Yegg means (cant, slang) A person who breaks open safes; a burglar..
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/jɛɡ/ · noun
(cant, slang) A person who breaks open safes; a burglar..
1904, Edwin S. Porter (director), Capture of the ‘Yegg’ Bank Burglars
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.
‘These racketeers are a new type. We think about them the way we think about old time yeggs or needled-up punks.’
The bookmakers were yegged as they left the track in the era of the hand-books.
Use yegg when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Yegg means (cant, slang) A person who breaks open safes; a burglar..
Common synonyms include safecracker, yeggman.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1904, Edwin S. Porter (director), Capture of the ‘Yegg’ Bank Burglars
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