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burglarproof

American  
[bur-gler-proof] / ˈbɜr glərˌpruf /

adjective

  1. safeguarded or secure against burglary.


verb (used with object)

  1. to make burglarproof.

    to burglarproof one's home.

Etymology

Origin of burglarproof

First recorded in 1855–60; burglar + -proof

Example Sentences

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Frank Dewey announced that he plans to market a burglarproof lock he designed while in jail.

From Time Magazine Archive

Add a bank, ultramodern European and defiantly burglarproof.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pharaoh Jack Hawkins, whose eagle-beaked visage bears a fleeting resemblance to Dick Tracy, employs his slaves and citizens to build a burglarproof pyramid that will hide him and his treasure until the end of time.

From Time Magazine Archive

All these he hung in his burglarproof home called Stone's Throw, outside Pittsburgh, and only people he liked and trusted ever got to see them.

From Time Magazine Archive

I never knew until then that a duck was built like a watch—that his works were inclosed in a burglarproof case.

From Speaking of Operations by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

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