cracksman

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   dated or literary: a burglar, especially one skilled at breaking open safes

   The cracksman worked on the safe while his accomplice watched the street.

An early nineteenth-century underworld term formed from crack, in the sense 'break open,' a linking -s-, and man. It first denoted a burglar capable of forcing locks or safes.

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