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safe-breaker

British  

noun

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

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Bridgers mutters, in the gruff matter of a genius ex-con safe-breaker who swore she’d given it all up but just agreed to do one last job: “Stakes are so high.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2023

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

From 'Me--Smith' by Hoskins, Gayle Porter

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