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yegg
noun
a criminal, especially a burglar or safecracker US, 1900 Anglicised by 1932.- We think about them the way we think about old-time yeggs or needled-up punks. — Raymond Chandler, Farewell My Lovely, p. 197, 1940
- I watched that yegg while my clarinet weaved a spell around him[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 183, 1946
- In his category were yeggs, who roved in packs, lived in roadside jungles, cased small-town banks and robbed them. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, p. 55, 1950
- You wouldn’t have been surprised to learn that this man, for all his yegg’s physiognomy, spent his spare hours carving cherubs and penguins out of Ivory soap[.] — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 48, 1954
- I was a yegg and on of the toughest of yeggs. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 100, 1965
- Formerly he’d been a yegg, safecracker, the best on the coast. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 26, 1990
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