cracksman

1. (archaic, informal) A burglar or safebreaker.Examples: "The fraudulent clerk and the flash “cracksman” interchanged experiences."; "She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected 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."; "The bank cracksmen who looted the national bank at Northampton were traced by a piece of wrapping paper picked up in an abandoned schoolhouse."archaicinformal