CRACKSMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cracksman mean? 

• CRACKSMAN (noun)
  The noun CRACKSMAN has 1 sense:

1. a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents

  Familiarity information: CRACKSMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRACKSMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cracksman; safebreaker; safecracker

Hypernyms ("cracksman" is a kind of...):

stealer; thief (a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it)

 Context examples 

This person appears to have been none other than Beddington, the famous forger and cracksman, who, with his brother, had only recently emerged from a five years’ spell of penal servitude.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)