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yegged

yegged is the simple past and past participle of yegg.

Meaning of yegg

Verb

yegg (third-person singular simple present yeggs, present participle yegging, simple past and past participle yegged)

  1. (slang) To rob.
    • The bookmakers were yegged as they left the track in the era of the hand-books.1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 10, in Diamonds Are Forever

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Questions about yegged

What is yegged the simple past and past participle of?
Yegged is the simple past and past participle of yegg.

Words near yegged in the dictionary

  1. Yeezy
  2. Yefinhar
  3. Yefrem
  4. yeg
  5. yegg
  6. yegged
  7. yegging
  8. yeggman
  9. yeggmen
  10. yeggs
  11. Yeghegnadzor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yegged (page history and authors); yegg (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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