Crook who doesn't need the combination

Usage examples of safecracker.

The man from whom these words emerged at the top of the stairs was easily recognizable once the angle revealed a pair of stringy trousered legs growing out from iron-heeled shoes: Langdon Peaslee, safecracker, nonchalantly buffing his diamond breast-pin with the wide cuff of his shirt.

That last trick had just been a show of power by the great safecracker, in case any unwise notions ever visited Nicholas Rey.

But he is a man with a mission now, his hands and tongue stroking and probing, a safecracker with his ear to the lock.

The certainty of Denver that he would find it impossible to stay by his program of honest work had made a strong impression upon his imaginative mind, as though the little safecracker really had the power to look into the future and into the minds of men.

His head rested against the bronze belly, like a safecracker leaning against a safe and listening for the slightest sound of mechanical reaction.

I happen to know a safecracker who consults an astrologer before each and every job he pulls.

The prosecution had described the prisoner as one of the most skillfuli safecrackers in Hamburg.

There were Blutter statesmen and Blutter generals and, doubtless, Blutter safecrackers.