housebreaker
Noun

housebreaker (plural housebreakers)

  1. A criminal#Noun|criminal who break#Verb|breaks into and enters another's house#Noun|house or premises with the intent of committing a crime.
    • 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “Miss Stanbury’s Generosity”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, publishers, […], OCLC 1118026626 ↗, page 93 ↗:
      [H]e is dressed in such a rapscallion manner that the people would think you were talking to a house-breaker.
    • 1968 November 19, "[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7nkyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GrkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=751,4454840&dq=housebreaker&hl=en ‘Infuriated’ vicar's wife routs interloper]," Montreal Gazette (Canada), page 9 (retrieved 21 Sep 2010):
      The vicar seized a sword and routed the housebreaker, but it was the vicar's wife in a nightgown and coat who caught up with the fleeing intruder, slapped his face and held him by the neck.
    • 2009 May 20, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20090525150448/http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Crime/Story/A1Story20090520-142787.html Serial housebreaker nabbed]," AsiaOne (Singapore) (retrieved 21 Sep 2010):
      A serial housebreaker who is believed to have stolen from several homes in Ang Mo Kio last month was nabbed on Tuesday.
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