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PRONUNCIATION OF CRACKSMEN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CRACKSMEN

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Cracksmen is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CRACKSMEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

A. J. Raffles

E. W. Hornung wrote a series of twenty-six short stories and one novel about the adventures of Arthur J. Raffles, cricketeer and gentleman thief, and his chronicler, Harry "Bunny" Manders, in London, between 1898 and 1909, with the first story "The Ides of March" appearing in the June 1898 edition of Cassell's Magazine. The early adventures were published in The Amateur Cracksman and continued with The Black Mask after Raffles's and Bunny's exposure through to Raffles's death. The last collection, A Thief in the Night, as well as the novel, Mr. Justice Raffles, tell of adventures previously withheld. Hornung dedicated the first collection of stories, The Amateur Cracksman, to his brother-in-law, Arthur Conan Doyle, intending Raffles as a "form of flattery." In contrast to Conan Doyle's Holmes and Watson, Raffles and Bunny are "something dark, morally uncertain, yet convincingly, reassuringly English." I think I may claim that his famous character Raffles was a kind of inversion of Sherlock Holmes, Bunny playing Watson. He admits as much in his kindly dedication.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CRACKSMEN

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Cracker State
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WORDS THAT END LIKE CRACKSMEN

bail bondsmen
batsmen
businessmen
chessmen
congressmen
craftsmen
groomsmen
linesmen
marksmen
National Guardsmen
ombudsmen
outdoorsmen
salesmen
sportsmen
statesmen
subtacksmen
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upperclassmen
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Synonyms and antonyms of cracksmen in the English dictionary of synonyms

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TRANSLATION OF CRACKSMEN

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Trends of use of cracksmen

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CRACKSMEN»

The term «cracksmen» is normally little used and occupies the 148.849 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CRACKSMEN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cracksmen

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CRACKSMEN»

Discover the use of cracksmen in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cracksmen and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Amateur Cracksmen
Arthur Raffles is a prominent member of London society, and a national sporting hero.
E. W. Hornung, 2012
2
Property Crime in London, 1850-Present
as a spontaneous reaction to unemployment, but as a means of negotiating the wider social and economic changes that affected their lives during this tumultuous period of British history.4 Swell Cracksmen: Identity and Identification If the ...
William M. Meier, 2011
3
The King of the Cracksmen: A Steampunk Entertainment
The King of the Cracksmen is an explosive, action-packed look at a Victorian empire that never was; part To Catch a Thief, part Little Big Man.
Dennis O'Flaherty, 2015
4
Popular Science
It would take expert cracksmen a month to bore and blast their way through to the interior. Behind this and other modern strongholds for valuables lies an exciting story. The race between vault makers and vault breakers has been compared to ...
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Popular Mechanics
By standing on two of these, a circuit was formed, and conversation could be carried on without difficulty. CRACKSMEN ENTER SAFES WITHOUT EXPLOSIVES Safe cracking without the aid of explosives has been accomplished a number of ...
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The Dramatical Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Extended ...
You'retheKing ofthe Cracksmen, ain't you? Brodie. Why not! He asks me why not! Gods what a brain it is!Hark ye, Badger, it's all very well to be King of the Cracksmen, as you call it; but howeverrespectable hemay havethe misfortune tobe, ...
Robert Louis Stevenson, 2014
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Mystery Movie Series of 1940s Hollywood
In the early years of crime fiction, cracksmen were the subject of many mystery novels and stories. There was Arsène Lupin, created by Maurice LeBlanc, who was once France's greatest criminal but eventually moved to the side of law and ...
Ron Backer, 2010
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A living picture of London, for 1828, and stranger's guide, ...
230 CRACKSMEN AND PUT-UP ROBBERIES ; night-bell, or bells, across passages, vulnerable windows, and other places of suspected access. With precautions such as these, or compounded out of them, has the writer of this article, ...
John Badcock, 1828
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Real Life In London
As ourtwo friends entered this Augean Stable, a whisper of surprise, mingled with dismay, went round themotley assemblage offemale streetdrabs, cracksmen,{1} and foglehunters; and a wary glance of suspicion darted from the group "many a  ...
Henry Thomas Alken
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Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
You're the King of the Cracksmen, ain't you? Brodie. Why not! He asks me why not! Gods what abrain it is! Hark ye, Badger, it's all very well tobe Kingof the Cracksmen, as you callit;but however respectable hemayhave the misfortune to be, ...
Robert Louis Stevenson, 2013

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CRACKSMEN»

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Table of Contents, April 2015
... Cixin Liu (Ken Liu, trans.); King of the Cracksmen, Dennis O'Flaherty; The Collectors, Philip Pullman. Terry Bisson: This Month in History / 13, ... «Locus Online, Apr 15»
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March 19, birthdays for Clayton Kershaw, Bruce Willis, Glenn Close
... it to pieces under their very noses, as it were, cannot repress a professional feeling of admiration for the cracksmen,” the Eagle reported. ****. «Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Mar 15»
3
A Tasty, Steampunk Treat
The cover copy calls Dennis O'Flaherty's King of the Cracksmen a steampunk entertainment. The novel is that and more. In terms of style, it is a ... «Huffington Post, Mar 15»
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E.B. White Classics Will Soon Be Available As E-Books
Read full book review. 'King of the Cracksmen' by Dennis O'Flaherty. "As Liam remarks: "That ought to ginger them up." He could be referring to ... «Huffington Post Canada, Feb 15»
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9 Action-Packed Books More Entertaining Than Any Movie
... turned secret agent (King of the Cracksmen by Dennis O'Flaherty), and a harrowing prison memoir (Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould ... «Huffington Post, Jan 15»
6
Belen bank robbery
Described in the press as “expert cracksmen,” the robbers entered the store about 2 a.m. and opened the store's two safes, using combinations ... «Valencia County News Bulletin, Sep 14»
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The Golden Age Of Armed Robbery
So too were the cracksmen. These were the years that followed the Second World War. The underworld was filled with demobbed young men, ... «Sabotage Times, Apr 13»
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Answers to Questions About New York
“The doughty inspector was willing to take it for granted that cracksmen and stickup men did not visit the financial district to study the bond ... «New York Times, Jan 13»
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The outlaws of Worcester county
No longer do amateur cracksmen pad across hallways to rob their host's library safe as he sleeps; the likes of cat burglar Peter Scott are caught ... «Independent, Aug 08»

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