Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who breaks into safes in order to steal items from them.

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  • noun One who breaks into safes, who practices safecracking.

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  • noun a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents

Etymologies

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safe +‎ cracker

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Examples

  • In Point Blank, Samuel (Gilles Lellouche) is a nurse's aide whose wife is kidnapped; his only instruction is to spring a hospital patient -- a safecracker named Hugo Sartet (Roschdy Zem), who has been hit by a motorcycle -- and bring him to exchange for his wife.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Interview: Fred Cavaye Goes Hollywood Marshall Fine 2011

  • Easier said than done: Hugo, a known safecracker, is now under police protection, considered a person of interest in the murder of a noted Parisian businessman.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Point Blank Marshall Fine 2011

  • I mean, okay, he was a safecracker and a jailbreak designer.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2009

  • “Sadie” Cohen, a safecracker who had been in and out of Sing Sing.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • Here you can't imagine why anyone would go to all this trouble to create a "perfect" safecracker when perfectly good ones are available for a lot less.

    Fox's 'Dollhouse' is its own worst enemy 2009

  • While Mr. Barr acknowledges the graciousness of the Newbury, "getting in there to look at a poetry book required a safecracker."

    Poetry's New Palace Joel Henning 2011

  • 'The Italian Job' 2003 In this jaunty remake of the 1969 original, Charlize Theron gives a lovely performance as a safecracker named Stella, who towers over three Mini Coopers used as getaway cars by a crew of high-tech thieves.

    Nervy 'Young Adult' Dazzles by the Book Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • “Sadie” Cohen, a safecracker who had been in and out of Sing Sing.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • The marvelous cast includes Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori and, as a once-crackerjack safecracker closing in on senility, the legendary clown Tot ò.

    Dark Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • You can play a gangbanger, a pirate (sea or space), a bandit, a Mafioso, an elegant art thief, a pimp, a safecracker/security expert, a prisoner, a con man … So many of these archetypes find their way into other RPGs, but are consigned to a bit part.

    Underserved Gaming Genres 2: Crime Fiction « Geek Related 2008

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