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safe-blower

noun

  1. a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

He had broken up a few nocturnal street brawls, now and then he had foiled the designs of a second-story artisan, and on two or three occasions he had caught a safe-blower red-handed, but nothing very exciting had ever happened to him.

He and Trotsky are always spitting in each other's face, but at an Oriental bazaar the rug dealers think nothing of a little saliva�and J. Stalin is to his grim fingertips an Oriental, a Georgian brigand, bomb-thrower and safe-blower who is now on terms of diplomatic friendship with fellow Dictators, Presidents, Kings.

Frank Reno was discovered a little later at Windsor, Canada, where he was living with Charles Anderson, a professional burglar, safe-blower, and "short-card" gambler, who had fled to Canada to escape prosecution.

To be locked up with one safe-blower is enough, and now you’ve stuck three murderers into this rotten hole.

Of course, the safe-blower was not included in this outside gang, but one dark and rainy morning he included himself by the simple process of hog-tying and gagging one of the trusties detailed for the job, exchanging numbered jackets with him, and taking the man's place in the ranks of the stone-loaders, where he contrived to pass unnoticed by the guards.

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