Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (Aus.) a burglar.

1912

Sport (Adelaide) 22 June 10/2: They Say [...] That Gander G.shot a burg. with his shooter — we don’t think.

2. (Aus./US Und.) a burglary.

1983		R. Aven-Bray Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 18: Burg Burglary.
1990		interview on Burglary at Lehman College (N.Y.) 🌐 OK. In your most recent burg, can you tell me about one where you took an unnecessary risk? [Ibid.] We didn’t have any tools or anything because we weren’t ready to do a burg so we kicked in the door, went straight for their dresser and took their clothes. [Ibid.] So once you came to that point that said I’m a do a burg, what did you do next?
1992		A. Duff One Night Out Stealing 10: So you gonna come up with a once-in-lifetime burg, maybe, that’ll set us up for life?
1997		E. Little Another Day in Paradise 158: You guys do the burgs just like ya laid out.
1999		P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Looks like a burg gone wrong [...] No signs of struggle.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 34/1: burg n. a burglary.
2002		S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 47: Disturbed during a daylight burg in South Yarra he belted the householder.
2009		P. Temple Truth 246: More dumb burgs, brain-dead robberies.
2017		Sydney Morn. Herald 10 July 🌐 Many a night he’d perform on stage, head out to do some ‘burgs’ and then score.
2023		D. Whish-Wilson I Am Already Dead 215: ‘If there’s another photograph, another burg needed, call me’.