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单词 cracksman
释义

cracksman

English

Etymology

From crack + -s- + -man.

Noun

cracksman (plural cracksmen)

  1. (archaic, informal) A burglar or safebreaker.
    • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter III, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:
      She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
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