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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 boy
  3. house boys
  4. house brand
  5. house brands
  6. house breaker
  7. house breakers
  8. house call
  9. house calls
  10. house car
  11. house cars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: house breaker (page history and authors); housebreaker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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