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yogger

yogger noun: a gun.

Noun

yogger (plural yoggers)

  1. (Romani slang) A gun.
    • The vavver mush pulls out a chiv and penned he would mor Joey's dadrus, but his dai got the yogger out and shot the mush in one leg. The dui mushes prasters off in the drag and poggers it up against a rooker and they were lifted to ...1984, Thomas Alan Acton, Donald Kenrick, Romani Rokkeripen To-divvus: The English Romani Dialect and Its Contemporary Social, Educational and Linguistic Standing
    • "They carries yoggers an' all — they'd mar a man for three grand, like me dead father they would."2007, Dominic Reeve, Beneath the Blue Sky: Four Decades of a Travelling Life in Britain

Examples of yogger in a sentence

  • Only thing is, he tripped up on the stairs, the yogger went bang, as yoggers are apt to do, and he ended up blowing the bottom of his own arm off.2013, Horace Silver, Judas Pig, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
  • 'I've seen the yogger up there so I got it out of the wardrobe . . .' She was babbling, half-crying with the aftermath of terror.2018, Jessie Keane, Fearless: The Most Shocking and Gritty Gangland Thriller You'll Read This Year, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:

Forms of yogger

pluralyoggers

Origin of yogger

From Romani yogger, yogengri (“gun”), from jag (“fire”).

Questions about yogger

What does yogger mean?
Yogger means a gun.
How do you use yogger in a sentence?
Only thing is, he tripped up on the stairs, the yogger went bang, as yoggers are apt to do, and he ended up blowing the bottom of his own arm off.
What part of speech is yogger?
Yogger is a noun.
What is the plural of yogger?
The plural of yogger is yoggers.

Words near yogger in the dictionary

  1. yogathons
  2. yogawear
  3. yogee
  4. yogees
  5. Yogesh
  6. yogger
  7. yoggers
  8. yogh
  9. yoghee
  10. yoghees
  11. yoghi

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