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yeggs

yeggs is the plural of yegg.

yeggs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of yegg.

Meaning of yegg

Noun

yegg (plural yeggs)

  1. (slang, cant) A person who breaks open safes; a burglar.
    • 1904, Edwin S. Porter (director), Capture of the ‘Yegg’ Bank Burglars
    Synonyms:
    safecracker, yeggman

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Questions about yeggs

What is yeggs the plural of?
Yeggs is the plural of yegg.

Words near yeggs in the dictionary

  1. yegg
  2. yegged
  3. yegging
  4. yeggman
  5. yeggmen
  6. yeggs
  7. Yeghegnadzor
  8. Yeghiazarian
  9. Yeghiazarians
  10. Yeghiazaryan
  11. Yeghiazaryans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yeggs (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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