safe-breaker

noun

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.'

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.

You are known as a safe-breaker; you have served a term for it.

He had all the contempt for a petty-larceny thief that the skilled safe-breaker has for the common purse-snatcher.

No up-to-date safe-breaker would ever think of using such a tool as this.

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