Old American criminal slang for a safecracker — specifically someone who specializes in breaking into safes ('jugs' in heist vernacular). 'Jug-heavy' belongs to the colorful vocabulary of mid-20th century American crime culture, where safes were called jugs and the specialists who cracked them were the heavies. The term appears in pulp fiction, hard-boiled detective novels, and occasionally in accounts of real organized crime from the Prohibition and post-war eras.
The crew needed a jug-heavy for the bank job, and word on the street was there was only one man who could do it in under ten minutes.
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(US, slang) A safecracker.
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