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Webster 1913 Edition


Cracksman

Cracks′man

(kr?ks′man)
,
Noun.
,
pl.
Cracksmen
(-men)
.
A burglar.
[Slang]

Definition 2024


cracksman

cracksman

English

Noun

cracksman (plural cracksmen)

  1. (archaic, informal) A burglar or safebreaker.
    • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter III:
      She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought 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.