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Old-school safecracker
Answer for the clue "Old-school safecracker ", 4 letters:
yegg
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Word definitions for yegg in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also yegg-man , 1901, a word popular in the first decade of the 20th century and meaning vaguely "hobo burglar; safe-breaker; criminal beggar."\n\nThe great majority [of the Chicago criminal population] are what certain detectives call "Yegg-men," which ...
Usage examples of yegg.
Craig succeeded in drawing out from him the yegg recipe for making "soup.
A couple of nervy yeggs had cracked a box in a branch post office in a nearby suburb—and had got away with some stamps.
Of course there were people like Sandlin and Ardink and Yegg, utterly somber and obedient career agents who would never annoy or contradict Doltmeer and who regarded people like me with pious distaste.
It ought to net you ten thousand dollars, because I'm going to pay you double what I'm paying those yeggs downstairs.
He knew what the yegg inside was doing now, he was making his way around the fence, he was looking for another way out.
The bookmakers were yegged as they left the track in the era of the hand-books.