Crossword clues for break-in
break-in
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
break-in \break-in\ n. an act of trespassing into a closed structure such as a house or place of busineess for an unlawful purpose, usually as part of a burglary.
Syn: housebreaking, breaking and entering.
Wiktionary
n. An act of entering somewhere with the intent to steal or commit some other offense; an instance of breaking and entering.
WordNet
n. trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent [syn: housebreaking, breaking and entering]
Wikipedia
Break-in or breaking in, also known as run-in or running in, is the procedure of conditioning a new piece of equipment by giving it an initial period of running, usually under light load, but sometimes under heavy load or normal load. It is generally a process of moving parts wearing against each other to produce the last small bit of size and shape adjustment that will settle them into a stable relationship for the rest of their working life.
One of the most common examples of break-in is engine break-in for petrol engines and diesel engines.
Usage examples of "break-in".
Somewhere along the way, Bailor had connected with art criminals and had perhaps lent his break-in talent to their undertakings.
Not long before the break-ins the foreman had hired a mechanic, Geoff Watson by name, without telling Gis, and the man had remained at Schuyler H for only a fortnight and then had disappeared.
Cult of the Dead Cow, a hacker gang headquartered in Lubbock, Texas, put on a mediagenic show to promote its Back Orifice 2000 break-in program.
The police told me it looks like Messinger staged a break-in of his own office.
Life, is used to inexplicable underlining that turns out to be dog hairs, and apparent shifts from print to Braille where someone overdue for a forepaw nail trimming has checked my copy, but the printouts of my articles about Bobbie and Margaret, retrieved from the floor after the break-in, looked as if they had been used for paper-training.
By June of 1973 a Gallup poll showed 67 percent of those polled thought Nixon was involved in the Watergate break-in or lied to cover up.
If, however, they instead concentrated on the slideway ramps and the floor where the attempted break-in was occurring.
In December to that point it tallied two muggings, a stolen vehicle, four vehicle break-ins, a handful of stolen purses, some suspected pickpocket activity, a variety of disturbances by the obnoxious or irate, two episodes of vandalism, a hit-and-run in the parking lot, vagrancy, panhandling, et cetera, et cetera, and a two-part list six pages long of suspected or confirmed shoplifting and stolen or missing merchandise.
She was wary enough herself after the break-in to peek out the window before unlocking the door.
Gambino squad, assigned to keep tabs on Castellano, would later publish a book in which they describe participating in a derring-do midnight break-in to place the bug, complete with blackened faces and black clothes, knocking out the watchdogs with drugged meat and bypassing the alarm system with only seconds to spare before it went off.
Secret Service agents know more about phreaking, coding and carding than most phreaks can find out in years, and when it comes to viruses, break-ins, software bombs and trojan horses, Feds have direct access to red-hot confidential information that is only vague rumor in the underground.
The MSA break-in tended to overshadow the other thefts, but Roads knew them all by heart.
Zagloul to Sherif, inside an hour, never mind murder somebody and fake a break-in.
With Bailey as his counsel, DeSalvo went to trial on January 10, 1967, not for the Boston Strangler murders, but for the Green Man assaults and break-ins.
The break-in was big news among orchid growers and collectors because it was probably the biggest-ever orchid theft in Florida and maybe the biggest-ever in the United States, and it was definitely the biggest-ever theft of such special plants.