Crossword clues for yegg
yegg
- Safe-cracking crook
- B-movie safecracker
- Safe robber, slangily
- Safe cracker
- One with a safe job?
- One who profits from safe jobs
- Door opener of a sort
- Crook with a safe job?
- Thief who doesn't need the combination
- Safecracking crook
- Safecracker, in jargon
- Safe worker?
- Safe seeker
- Safe cracker of old films
- Safe buster
- One who works with a stethoscope
- Old-school safecracker
- Old-fashioned safecracker
- Noir-era slang for a safecracker
- He does safe work
- Expert with a stethoscope?
- Expert at cracking
- Cracker, e.g
- Code cracker, of sorts
- Chelsea safe cracker
- Peterman
- Burglar, slangily
- Old-fashioned criminal
- Safecracker, slangily
- Skilled felon
- Vault cracker
- Cracker, of sorts
- Itinerant burglar, slangily
- Person with a safe job?
- Human cracker
- One trying to find the right combination?
- Burglar who really gets cracking?
- Burglar in detective stories
- Sort who isn't safe around a safe
- One with a job opening?
- One doing safe work?
- One with whom your safe is not safe
- Peteman
- Cracksman
- Safecracker, in slang
- Second-story man
- Slangy safecracker
- Criminal with a safe job?
- His is a safe job
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 is a term, by the way, that the detectives would do well to define. As far as I can discover it means tramp-thieves, but the average tramp seldom uses the word. Hoboes that break safes in country post-offices come under the Yegg-men classification."
[McClure's Magazine, Feb. 1901]
\nPopularized by the Pinkerton agency detectives. The 1900 "Proceedings of the 26th annual convention of the American Bankers' Association," whose members were protected by the Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, reported a letter dated Nov. 23 or 24, 1899, returning $540, taken earlier that year, to the Scandinavian-American Bank of St. Paul, Minn., noting that the thieves had been so hounded by detectives that they gave up the gains and advised the bank to advertise that it was a member of the American Bankers Association, because "the American Bankers Association is too tough for poor 'grafters.'" The letter supposedly was signed "John Yegg," but this was said to be a pseudonym and the report identified the man arrested later in the case as William Barrett.\nWiktionary
n. (context cant slang English) A person who breaks open safes; a burglar.
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.