After the jump: The definition of "yegg"; teenagers are cruel and unbearable; mutants really seem to cheese people off; and other life lessons kids learn from comics. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News]
You need to check in at yegg central for some new lines. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Spokesperson Compares Obama To...Ken Starr!] Reference
My companion tramps cursed the yegg and his ways. From Wordnik.com. [Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative] Reference
That's one of the most notorious yegg-men on the other side. From Wordnik.com. [The Intrusion of Jimmy] Reference
Craig succeeded in drawing out from him the yegg recipe for making. From Wordnik.com. [The Poisoned Pen] Reference
"You damned yegg!" he complained as be knotted two strips of shirt. From Wordnik.com. [The Ivory Trail] Reference
"But what excuse are you going to have for getting into this yegg-resort?". From Wordnik.com. [The Poisoned Pen] Reference
A jeweler by trade, he fell from his high estate and went on the road as a yegg. From Wordnik.com. [Blacksheep! Blacksheep!] Reference
A one-armed yegg could open most of the boxes in this town with a tin button-hook. From Wordnik.com. [Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man] Reference
"And your side partner with the Salvation Army coat on looks like a yegg man to me.". From Wordnik.com. [Shorty McCabe] Reference
Then he told how an idea had come to the mind of an idle yegg named "Missouri" Horton. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Made Good] Reference
A man with whom chance brought me frequently in contact was H., a yegg, as the term is. From Wordnik.com. [The Subterranean Brotherhood] Reference
Those who think they know the origin of hobo may occupy themselves with yegg and the rest. From Wordnik.com. [OUPblog] Reference
He duly canvassed every likely dive, every "melina," every gambling house and yegg hang out. From Wordnik.com. [Never-Fail Blake] Reference
The common yegg habit of pouring an explosive fluid into the cracks of a strong box is obsolete. From Wordnik.com. [Blacksheep! Blacksheep!] Reference
You can't believe that I'm not simply an ordinary yegg, like the rest of the crooks you used to know. From Wordnik.com. [The Gem Collector] Reference
He had brought with him to Cooperstown an album containing photographs of the most noted bank-sneaks and yegg-men. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Cooperstown] Reference
"And what the devil do you want with Miss Chester, you slimy, crawling second-story-worker, you damned, oily yegg?" enquired. From Wordnik.com. [Piccadilly Jim] Reference
` ` I'll tell you, George: I'm a law-abiding man, but they do say Verg Gunch is a regular yegg, and of course he's bigger 'n. From Wordnik.com. [Babbitt] Reference
An American yegg would have laughed at it, opened it as easily as a ripe peach; but in this district it was absolute security. From Wordnik.com. [The Pagan Madonna] Reference
And look here: don't you get the notion in your bean I'm just some little old two-by-four guy of a yegg or some poor nut of a dip. From Wordnik.com. [Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man] Reference
Rare bird; thrifty doesn't describe him; he's just plain stingy; sells stolen postage-stamps at par; the only living yegg that can put that over!. From Wordnik.com. [The Madness of May] Reference
Wall Street's indignation at his hardihood knew no bounds, and at the time of which I write the yegg-men of the "System" were laying for him with dark-lantern and sand-bag. From Wordnik.com. [Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated] Reference
They had added to their establishment a retired yegg who had lost an eye by the premature popping of the "soup" (i.e., nitro-glycerin) poured into the crevices of a country post-office in Missouri. From Wordnik.com. [A Reversible Santa Claus] Reference
"I always knew some yegg would stroll in that way. From Wordnik.com. [Piccadilly Jim] Reference
"A yegg never does any damage unless he's right on top of his man. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Chance] Reference
Gunch is a regular yegg, and of course he's bigger 'n I am, and I just can't figure out what I'd do if he tried to force me into anything criminal! ". From Wordnik.com. [Babbitt] Reference
There's a secret passage to the yegg-house. From Wordnik.com. [The Poisoned Pen] Reference
(@yegg). From Wordnik.com. [Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal: The Most Important Facts (And Some Opinion)] Reference
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