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cracksman
[ kraks-muhn ]
noun
- burglar; housebreaker.
cracksman
/ ˈkræksmən /
noun
- slang.a burglar, esp a safe-breaker
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cracksman1
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Example Sentences
The skill and daring of the cracksman makes him a marked man.
Martin Thimblethorpe, then, was the solitary cracksman, and your real name is Dobbs?
But the cracksman must have fallen out with his own likeness as Iago, for his thumb-nail was clean as a whistle.
His head was drawn down through the bars and he nuzzled a soft substance on the cracksman's breast.
The turnkey hanging helpless into the cracksman's cell, his body outlined against the lantern, caused him to start back.
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