cracksman

Examples

• All

• As for me, there could have been no worse cracksman in all of England.

  Fiction book (1990)

• All's I know is that he's a cracksman planning a flash pull, he is.

  The First Great Train Robbery (1978)

• The police caught the cracksman just as he was trying to break open the safe.

• A skilled cracksman can open any strongbox in minutes, stealing valuable items.

Synonyms

T

thief

vscracksman

754 1.0

A person who takes someone else's things without permission

adds the specific act of breaking locked containers to steal valuables

C

crook

vscracksman

• Offensive

153 3.9

A dishonest person who cheats or steals

is narrower, naming one who breaks secured containers to steal

S

safecracker

vscracksman

4 8.9

A person who breaks into safes to steal money or other things

is the specific criminal type rather than a general thief

S

stealer

vscracksman

4 4.6

A person who takes things that belong to others without permission

targets secured containers specifically rather than any unauthorized taking

S

sneak thief

vscracksman

2 7.6

A person who secretly steals things without using force

is focused on breaking into locked containers rather than furtive petty theft

Y

yegg

vscracksman

• Archaic

1 9.9

A person who breaks into places like banks to steal from safes

is the formal descriptive term rather than slang

S

safebreaker

vscracksman

9.1

A person who illegally opens safes to steal things

is a thief who targets these containers, often as a job

B

boxman

vscracksman

• NSFW

9.9

A person who opens safes to steal things

is a general thief who also performs that same breaking activity

C

crackswoman

vscracksman

• Archaic

9.9

A woman who breaks open safes to steal valuable things

is the male term for the same criminal role

P

purloiner

vscracksman

9.6

A person who steals things secretly

is specifically about breaking secured containers rather than general secret taking

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology