Usually means: Burglar specializing in safe-cracking.
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  1. yegg: Merriam-Webster
  2. yegg: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. yegg: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. yegg: Collins English Dictionary
  5. yegg: Wordnik
  6. yegg: Wiktionary
  7. yegg: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. yegg: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. yegg: Dictionary.com
  10. yegg: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Yegg: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. yegg: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  13. yegg: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. yegg: A Word A Day
  2. yegg: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. yegg, yegg: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. yegg: Urban Dictionary
  3. Yegg: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (yegg)

▸ noun:  (cant, slang) A person who breaks open safes; a burglar.
▸ verb:  (slang) To rob.

Similar:
yeggman, geach, bad egg, homebreaker, jug-heavy, cracksman, shopbreaker, Jimmy, burglaree, oyster, more...

Opposite:
law-abiding, honest, upright, lawful, virtuous

Adjectives:
little, old, embryonic, common, grizzled, armed
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Similar:
yeggman, geach, bad egg, homebreaker, jug-heavy, cracksman, shopbreaker, Jimmy, burglaree, oyster, more...

Opposite:
law-abiding, honest, upright, lawful, virtuous

Adjectives:
little, old, embryonic, common, grizzled, armed



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