yegg
/jɛɡ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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.’"
- "The bookmakers were yegged as they left the track in the era of the hand-books."