Meaning of cracksman | Babel Free

Definitions

A burglar or safebreaker.

archaic, informal

Examples

“The fraudulent clerk and the flash “cracksman” interchanged experiences.”

“She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.”

“The bank cracksmen who looted the national bank at Northampton were traced by a piece of wrapping paper picked up in an abandoned schoolhouse.”

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