Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A burglar who is especially skilled at stealthy or undetected entry of a premises.
Wiktionary
- n. A particularly stealthy burglar, especially one who gains undetected entry through their agility.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house
Examples
“It is certain no one will remember, when I am gone, that I was a man who first published Lenny B.uce; that I saved two hundred acres of watershed land from developers; that I once singlehandedly caught a car thief and on another occasion deduced the identity of a cat burglar and was instrumental in his capture; that I corresponded with the mysterious B. Traven and published his first book of short stories; that it was I who manipulated Mystery Writers of America into paying authors and editors who contributed to their anthologies.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cat burglar’.
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Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
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