What does cracksman mean?
Cracksman means (archaic, informal) A burglar or safebreaker..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(archaic, informal) A burglar or safebreaker..
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.
Use cracksman when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cracksman means (archaic, informal) A burglar or safebreaker..
Common synonyms include safecracker, safebreaker.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The fraudulent clerk and the flash “cracksman” interchanged experiences.
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