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  • noun Alternative spelling of safecracker.

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Examples

  • The meticulo us preparation and sheer chutzpah of the operation — infiltrating a secretary, distracting the embassy staff, sending in a safe-cracker, photographing and replacing the codebooks within hours — was extraordinary, not least because it had to be undertaken monthly when the codes changed.

    The Spymaster's Spymaster Andrew Roberts 2011

  • While Betty and Brousse drugged both the guard and his dog using pentobarbital, the safe-cracker hired for the occasion got the safe open but there was not enough time to photograph the information and get the ciphers back in time.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • Thornton played a kid-hating alcoholic who poses as a department store Santa to cover his sideline as a safe-cracker.

    Oliver Pfeiffer: Is Christmas the new Hallowe'en at the cinema? 2010

  • While Betty and Brousse drugged both the guard and his dog using pentobarbital, the safe-cracker hired for the occasion got the safe open but there was not enough time to photograph the information and get the ciphers back in time.

    Code Name Cynthia: The Life of Elizabeth Thorpe Pack Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • You could lock every nipple in the planet up in fort Knox, and suddenly every hormonal child between twelve and nineteen will become a master safe-cracker.

    Excplicit content, motherfuckers justnick 2009

  • You could lock every nipple in the planet up in fort Knox, and suddenly every hormonal child between twelve and nineteen will become a master safe-cracker.

    Excplicit content, motherfuckers justnick 2009

  • Here's the opening scene from the pilot where Wally Cox was the guest star as a safe-cracker; remember that many of the episodes, especially early ones, would have an additional member who wasn't part of the regular team.

    Good Morning, Mr. Briggs Jaime J. Weinman 2006

  • Here's the opening scene from the pilot where Wally Cox was the guest star as a safe-cracker; remember that many of the episodes, especially early ones, would have an additional member who wasn't part of the regular team.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006

  • Though we do think Brosnan’s next movie – about a safe-cracker who dies and is reincarnated as a series of animals – sounds ace.

    SLACKERJACK – James Bunny 2005

  • By the time the littlest witch was onto her twenty-third crystal, the little spaceman, safe-cracker and spy was awake.

    The Wizard Of Karres Lackey, Mercedes 2004

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