butronero
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butronero m (plural butroneros, feminine butronera, feminine plural butroneras)
- a thief who enters a building by means of making a hole in the wall
- 2003, Juan Garayar, La estrategia de la sardina, Alberdania, →ISBN, page 317:
- Nada de ir de chorizo, carterista, butronero, robabolsos, atracador, mangapinzas, sableador, estafador, experto en quitar el bocadillo a los niños en la puerta de los colegios o en pegar timos a las ancianitas.
- No more being a thief, pickpocket, butronero, purse-nicker, robber, pin-nabber, scrounger, swindler, expert in swiping a sandwich from the children in the doorway of a school or in scamming the little old ladies.
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Further reading edit
- “butronero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014