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burglary

nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈbɜː.ɡlə.ɹi//
  • United States//ˈbɝ.ɡlɚ.i//

The crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal.

noun

  1. 1

    The crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal.

    Essentially, Jarden makes anything that you’d find left behind after a burglary.

    It’s hard to say whether Corona was actually playing pickleball or was just nowhere near Slowjamastan at the time of the burglary and thinks it’s funny to say he was playing pickleball.

  2. 2

    The crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal. Under the common law, breaking and entering of the dwelling of another at night with the intent to commit a felony.

  3. 3

    The crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal. Under the Model Penal Code, entering a building or occupied structure with purpose to commit a crime therein, unless the premises are at the time open to the public or the actor is licensed or privileged to enter.

Etymology

From New Latin burglaria. By surface analysis, burglar + -y. Displaced native Old English hūsbryċe (literally “house-breach”).

Forms

plural
burglaries
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).