Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who breaks into safes in order to steal items from them.
Wiktionary
- n. One who breaks into safes, who practices safecracking.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents
Etymologies
- safe + cracker (Wiktionary)
Examples
“While Mr. Barr acknowledges the graciousness of the Newbury, "getting in there to look at a poetry book required a safecracker.”
“I mean, okay, he was a safecracker and a jailbreak designer.”
“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.”
The Wall Street Journal: Nervy 'Young Adult' Dazzles by the Book
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Marshall Fine: HuffPost Interview: Fred Cavaye Goes Hollywood
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Point Blank
“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.”
““Sadie” Cohen, a safecracker who had been in and out of Sing Sing.”
“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.”
“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.”
“But if you lookat, in this case anyway, making this movie is a little bit like trying to pulloff a heist — trying to put the pieces together, get the getaway car driver andget the safecracker and all that stuff.”
Lists
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Contemporary character classes?
as a youth I, and some others, made a pen-and-paper RPG, based in contemporary crime and suspense fiction + nonfiction, set in America's blighted urban centers, anonymous slurbs, and godforsaken hi...
acrobat, actor, anarchist, arsonist, artist, bagman, accountant, adrenaline junkie, airplane pilot, anti-racist skinhead, art student, assassin and 192 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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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.
Check out reesetee's nice Bad Guys l...arsonist, safecracker, murderer, rapist, getaway man, jewel thief, accomplice, drug dealer, carjacker, gunrunner, industrial spy, human trafficker and 216 more...
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portend... omen.../whats to come
glum plumportend, sotto, azure, idly, glum, morose, sidelong, Mary Blair, rendering, dubious, winsome, humongous and 100 more...
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