yegg

American  

[yeg] / yɛg /

noun

Older Slang.

1. a safecracker.

2. an itinerant burglar.

3. thug.

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yegg British  

/ jɛɡ /

noun

1. slang a burglar or safe-breaker

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Etymology

Origin of yegg

First recorded in 1925–30, of obscure origin; the proposals that the word is from German Jäger “hunter” or that it is the surname of a well-known safecracker are both very dubious

Example Sentences

Yegg Inc., a California firm that offers business finance solutions, was awarded $16.6 million to supply milk and dairy boxes for the Farmers to Families Food Box program May 8.

From Washington Post

In a letter Sunday, James E. Clyburn, chairman of the House’s select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis, asked George Egbuonu, president of Yegg, to cooperate with the committee’s investigation into the food box program.

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The letter alleged that rather than providing food boxes to major food banks across 10 counties in Southern California, as contracted, Yegg instead delivered almost $3 million in food boxes to an organization called Helping Feet, also owned by Egbuonu.

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“Yegg reported that it delivered almost $3 million of food boxes, including and 38,956 dairy boxes and 171,000 fluid milk boxes to an organization named Helping Feet. This entity is not a Southern California food bank. Rather, it is an organization that you founded, with no public information indicating a mission, experience, or capacity to deliver food to people in need,” the letter said.

From Washington Post

Stuart Nash, a partner at Holland & Knight, which is representing Yegg, said the company had stepped up at the beginning of the pandemic to help get essential food to thousands of needy families.

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