cat burglar

1. 1.

   a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house

   Synonymshousebreaker

   Broaderburglar

Questions about cat burglar

What does cat burglar mean?

cat burglar means "a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house".

What is another word for cat burglar?

Close synonyms include housebreaker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cat burglar a common word?

cat burglar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.