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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Slang A thief, especially a burglar or safecracker.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same as yeggman.

Wiktionary

  1. n. cant, slang A person who breaks open safes; a burglar.

Etymologies

  1. Origin unknown. (Wiktionary)
  2. Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “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.”

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  • “You need to check in at yegg central for some new lines.”

    Hillary Spokesperson Compares Obama To...Ken Starr!

  • “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.”

    Beau Friedlander: Cheap Gas = Death of Green?

  • “Eight months ago, any yegg with the ability to execute a financial transaction wa ...”

    Beau Friedlander: Cheap Gas = Death of Green?

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “And what the devil do you want with Miss Chester, you slimy, crawling second-story-worker, you damned, oily yegg?" enquired”

    Piccadilly Jim

  • “That's one of the most notorious yegg-men on the other side.”

    The Intrusion of Jimmy

  • ““I’ll tell you, George: I’m a law-abiding man, but they do say Verg Gunch is a regular yegg, and of course he’s bigger ’n I am, and I just can’t figure out what I’d do if he tried to force me into anything criminal!”

    Chapter 8

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