cracksman
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cracksman
Example Sentences
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The professional cracksman would probably have shaved, whereupon the first amateur detective he met would reconstruct the beard on the sunburned lines.
From The Price by Lynde, Francis
That devil—that renegade—that fury, Cleek, the cracksman, is here.
From Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Hanshew, Thomas W.
All we regret is, that we are now degenerated from the grand tobyman to the cracksman and the sneak, about whom there are no redeeming features.
From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison
And yet we have seen this cracksman captain—for he, too, was a captain at times—jostling and bellowing for odds among some of the highest and noblest of the land!
From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Surtees, Robert Smith
It’s empty now, and a cracksman trying to get into it would ruin a perfectly good safe, for nothing.”
From 'Firebrand' Trevison by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)
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