yegg
/jɛɡ
/noun North American informal
A burglar or safe-breaker.It seems to him that he's a prisoner of his own success and that those yeggs out there are truly free....
- They travel across the United States and the mythical world of the Yonder, facing down railroad bulls, yeggs and mythical creatures.
- "Yegg" was believed to be the surname of a certain American burglar and safe- breaker; hence a Yeggman or Yegg being "a burglar or safe-breaker".
Origin
Early 20th century: of unknown origin.
Rhymes
- retiarius
- retiary
- reticella
- reticelle
- reticelli
- reticello
- reticence
- reticency
- reticent
- reticently
- reticle
- reticula
- reticular
- reticular activating system
- reticular cell
- reticular fiber
- reticular fibre
- reticular formation
- reticularly
- reticular system
- reticular tissue
- reticulary
- reticulate
- reticulated
- reticulated micrometer