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cracksman

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Cracksman (noun) means someone who breaks into buildings or safes to steal.

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Someone who breaks into buildings or safes to steal.
"The bank cracksmen who looted the national bank at Northampton were traced by a piece of wrapping paper picked up in an abandoned schoolhouse." — Melville Davisson Post, The Man Hunters (1916)
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Etymology

Formed from crack, -s- and -man.

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"cracksman" (noun) means someone who breaks into buildings or safes to steal.
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