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house-breaker

house-breaker is the alternative form of housebreaker.

Meaning of housebreaker

Noun

housebreaker (plural housebreakers)

  1. A criminal who breaks into and enters another's house or premises with the intent of committing a crime.
    • […] here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; […]1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Oeconomy and Happy Life among the Houyhnhnms. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London...
    Synonyms:
    drummer

Forms of house-breaker

pluralhouse-breakers

Questions about house-breaker

What is house-breaker the alternative form of?
House-breaker is the alternative form of housebreaker.

Words near house-breaker in the dictionary

  1. house-barns
  2. house-bote
  3. house-botes
  4. house-boy
  5. house-boys
  6. house-breaker
  7. house-breakers
  8. house-broken
  9. house-call
  10. house-calls
  11. house-coat

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