yegg
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 4
/jɛɡ/
Definition of yegg
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(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.’”
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noun
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(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.’”
verb
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(slang)To rob.
“The bookmakers were yegged as they left the track in the era of the hand-books.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Origin unknown.
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