yegg

Example Sentences

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Sometimes, though, past and present combinations commingle in the mind, leaving men to huddle in the cold like hapless burglars while waiting for the frozen-fingered deciphering of the head yegg.

From New York Times • May 22, 2012

Stranded Thomas "Red" Moran is young, anemic and a hardboiled yegg.

From Time Magazine Archive

A masterpiece of bamboozlement, Catch Me is a kind of catch-22 between rival and riven U.S. agencies, written in a style that ranges from hardest-boiled yegg to souffl�, with nothing poached.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the yegg is just a softie under his shell.

From Time Magazine Archive

We've identified him as Missouri Horton of the Scott Gang—he got a Sing Sing life sentence for yegg work in Yonkers.

From Stories from Everybody's Magazine by Various