Yegg vs Yegs - What's the difference?
yegg | yegs |
(cant, slang) A person who breaks open safes; a burglar.
* 1904', Edwin S. Porter (director), ''Capture of the ‘'''Yegg ’ Bank Burglars
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* 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 265:
As nouns the difference between yegg and yegs
is that yegg is (cant|slang) a person who breaks open safes; a burglar while yegs is .yegg
English
Alternative forms
* yegNoun
(en noun)- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought 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.’