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Webster 1913 Edition
Cracksman
Cracks′man
(kr?ks′man)
, Noun.
pl.
Cracksmen
(-men)
. A burglar.
[Slang]
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cracksman
cracksman
English
Noun
cracksman (plural cracksmen)
- (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.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter III: