A person who is skilled at breaking into safes.
it was outlandish clobber for a tank man, a caper that relied on keeping a low profile
Example sentencesExamples
- 'Don't you know I'm Rusty Steele, the tank man?'
- There was allegedly a corresponding traffic in criminals, particularly "tank-men".
- The tank men and the gunnies ruled the roost. But those professions required a man to possess a streak of violence.
- The district crime manager can remember when there was once such a trade as a tank man.
- He was known as a tank man. He told me he'd made a huge can-opener that could cut open the rear of certain types of safe.