cracksman
Americannoun
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cracksmen
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Origin of cracksman
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That was just his blague; he was having a good time, pretending to be what you took him for--an amateur cracksman; he made up that story to fool you.
From Nobody by W. L. Jacobs
As the cracksman went, Lem saw a film of moisture glisten in his eyes.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
He could be sure of only one thing: that never again could he be what he had been once—"the slickest cracksman in America."
From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler
His presence in the pie pantry had been misinterpreted by a cracksman; and he, the harmless organist of Dr. Bulgerly's church, was claimed as the associate of a dangerous, perhaps notorious, thief.
From Visionaries by James Huneker
"For the love of God get me a respite for the innocent man, and I will undertake to bring the crime home to the cracksman and to his confederate Cowen."
From International Short Stories English by Various
On the night of Feb. 24, 1917 Spy Master Mayer's safe was rifled by expert Italian cracksmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two reformed cracksmen are unjustly accused of the theft and are severely put to it to prove their innocence when the very pearls turn up in their apartments.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jason Statham, ever the East End Bruce Willis, leads the amateur cracksmen as they get tangled in about 56 subplots involving MI5, good and bad cops, porn dealers, black radicals and jealous wives.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cracksmen keep up with the latest technology and quickly find any weak spot in a new design.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last summer in Paris with the Greenes you must have chanced to hear, of Pillard, the Apache, one of the most noted cracksmen the world has ever produced.
From The Silent Bullet by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
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