Cracksman
noun, slang
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A burglar or safebreaker. archaic, informal
"The fraudulent clerk and the flash “cracksman” interchanged experiences."
- 2 a male thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents wordnet
Example
More examples"This person appears to have been none other than Beddington, the famous forger and cracksman, who, with his brother, had only recently emerged from a five years' spell of penal servitude."
Etymology
From crack + -s- + -man.
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