house-breaker

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English

Noun

house-breaker (plural house-breakers)

  1. Alternative form of housebreaker
    • 1888, Donn Piatt, “The Sales-Lady of the City”, in The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales, Chicago, Ill., : Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, page 93:
      My brother Tom, you know, is on the force, and he has been here telling us all about it; how you’ve been philanderin about with Peg Alick, the well-known house-breaker and thief.