noun

• A burglar or safe-breaker.

  More example sentences

  • ‘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".’
  • ‘Common-sense tips on foiling burglars/yeggs/bad guys/home invaders.’

  Synonyms

  criminal, lawbreaker, offender, villain, black hat, delinquent, malefactor, culprit, wrongdoer, transgressor, sinner