safe-breaker


noun
  1. a person who breaks open and robs safes: Also called: safe-cracker

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How to use safe-breaker in a sentence

  • He told me that fifteen years ago you and he were friends, pals—that you were a famous safe-breaker—that you were 'Red Thorpe.'

    To Him That Hath | Leroy Scott
  • He forgot his triumph with Carrie in the possibility of soon being known for what he was, in this man's eyes, a safe-breaker.

    Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser
  • You are known as a safe-breaker; you have served a term for it.

    The White Moll | Frank L. Packard
  • He had all the contempt for a petty-larceny thief that the skilled safe-breaker has for the common purse-snatcher.

    'Me-Smith' | Caroline Lockhart
  • No up-to-date safe-breaker would ever think of using such a tool as this.