subs. (popular).—1.  A housebreaker. [From CRACK, verb, sense 2, + MAN; literally one who CRACKS or forces his way into a house.] For synonyms, see THIEVES.

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  1811.  GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum. The kiddy is a clever CRACKSMAN; the young fellow is a very expert house-breaker.

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  1830.  BULWER-LYTTON, Paul Clifford, p. 298, ed. 1854. I have no idea of a gentleman turning CRACKSMAN.

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  1837.  DICKENS, Oliver Twist, p. 123. You’ll be a fine young CRACKSMAN afore the old file now.

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  1837.  R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends (The Lay of St. Aloys).

        Your CRACKSMAN, for instance, thinks night-time the best
To break open a door, or the lid of a chest.

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  1839.  W. H. AINSWORTH, Jack Sheppard (1889), p. 70. I’ll turn CRACKSMAN, like my father.

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  1889.  Pall Mall Gazette, 21 Nov., p. 6, col. 1. The latest dodge among CRACKSMEN is to personate an electric-light man.

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  2.  (common)..—The penis.—See CRACK, subs., sense 4.

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