1904, Edwin S. Porter (director), Capture of the ‘Yegg’ Bank Burglars
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Yegg
//jɛɡ//
Synonyms for "yegg" (6 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Strong matches (1)
Related words (3)
Noun(2 words)
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Synonyms
2 entrieshas context
2 entriesTranslations
6 translations across 5 languages.
Czech
1 entries- kasař noun (a person who breaks open safes; a burglar)
Finnish
2 entries- kassakaappimurtaja noun (a person who breaks open safes; a burglar)
- murtovaras noun (a person who breaks open safes; a burglar)
Hungarian
1 entries- kasszafúró noun (a person who breaks open safes; a burglar)
Polish
1 entries- kasiarz noun (a person who breaks open safes; a burglar)
Russian
1 entries- взло́мщик noun (a person who breaks open safes; a burglar)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
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.
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‘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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The bookmakers were yegged as they left the track in the era of the hand-books.
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