yegg in English

noun
1
a burglar or safecracker.
It seems to him that he's a prisoner of his own success and that those yeggs out there are truly free.

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1. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing Cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.