yegg
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Is yegg a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (cant, slang) A person who breaks open safes; a burglar.Examples: "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.’"Synonyms: safecracker, yeggmanslang
verb (English)
1. (slang) To rob.Examples: "The bookmakers were yegged as they left the track in the era of the hand-books."slang
Definition source: Wiktionary