Stick
To crack
Both terms in one sentence
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Unfortunately, the allegedly reformed stick-up artist turned Asteroid Miner he first pitched it to press-ganged him into using it to crack open bank vaults instead.
Source: Cut Lex Luthor a Check - To do it, they stick them in a sensory deprivation tank and wait for them to crack.
Source: Sense Loss Sadness -
The Sly Cooper series regularly involves safecracking - for the first two games, you simply receive the combination codes once you pick up all the level's collectible "clue bottles", but in the third game you have to crack them yourself, rotating the dial (via the analogue stick) until it clicks.
Source: Safecracking
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