safecracker
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- noun
- /ˈseɪfˌkrækər/
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forzador de cajas fuertes
- The police arrested a notorious safecracker after he was caught in the act of breaking into a bank.
Examples
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She had been a safecracker and thief, a break-in artist of the first rank, to hear her tell it.
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This is Matthew Bachman, a safecracker.
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Back at the main door, our safecracker gets to work.
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This is the safecracker right here.
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You told me you needed a safecracker.
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So they must have recruited a new safecracker.
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But we do know Simms is a safecracker.
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You'll need a helicopter pilot and a safecracker.
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It was about a master safecracker and explorer named Ludwig Dieter.
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The men and women of the Shop made up a team of specialists: lock pickers, safecrackers, photographers, electronics wizards, and code experts.
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Synonyms
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A person who breaks into places like banks to steal from safes
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A thief who breaks open safes to steal what is inside
A person who illegally opens safes to steal things
A woman who breaks open safes to steal valuable things
A person who opens safes to steal things
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Safecracker joins safe, which means 'a strong box for money and valuable things', and cracker, which means someone who 'cracks' things open. Think of a nutcracker that breaks a nut: a safecracker 'cracks' a safe to steal, so the word means a criminal who opens safes to take valuable things.