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box man noun a criminal who specialises in breaking into safes US, 1902- “I don’t know, for godsake,” I said. “I’m no box man.” — Robert Edmond Alter, Carny Kill, p. 103, 1966
- I was supposed to be the best box-man in the country and as I look back, I must have busted four hundred boxes and lifted more than a million. — Red Rudensky, The Gonif, p. 6, 1970
- The old boxmen [safecrackers] they was not dope fiends. — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 68, 1972
- When I was learning to be a box-man, I didn’t do nothing but box work. — Harry King, Box Man, p. 85, 1972
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