What word means "to open a locked door with a plastic card" (such as a credit card)?

Question

I am almost positive I saw a funny word one time, and its definition specifically referred to opening locked doors using a credit card (or something like a credit card). Does anybody know what word this may have been? I think I remember it being a peculiar word to me (not "jimmy" or "pick").

Perhaps I should have included the word "force" or "bypass" to make it clearer like this: Using a plastic card to force open a locked door, bypassing the lock.

Answer 1

i saw in a movie once after a guy picked a lock with a credit card he said mastercard opened more doors and spread more leggs than all the others

Answer 2

I understand what you are asking. What you describe is common and is one of the many ways a thief gets in. I took the precaution of putting in my lock-set backwards, works very well. Works so well I had to remove a window after locking myself out one day. Also, my strike plate is much thicker than are the ones included with the lock-sets available over the counter (not happy with the one supplied so I made my own from two brass belt buckles, much more substantial and covers the lock bolt entirely). Too, my door shuts against a length of board glued and screwed to the door frame. Want in? Work for it! Kick it in? You'll hurt yourself first. The credit card trick relies on the space between the door and strike plate to enable the card to work by pushing against the nubbin as you called it. Get rid of that little space and you get rid of credit card tricks, turn the lock-set backwards and a credit card won't work anymore either. Check out some of the doors on shops in the higher risk neighborhoods to see the methods in use. Some are pretty ingenious yet so simple. Some of these methods are pretty stout too, takes a bit more than a credit card to get in.

Answer 3

I don't know what you originally saw but how about:

plasticate ...... as in " he lost his keys and had to plasticate his way in"

or ... amextricate ......"using his credit card he was able to amextricate his way out of the locked room"

Answer 4

encrypt a lock

Answer 5

LOL its probably jimmy but I thought of this one- Jailbird


EDITED:

You didn't like jailbird???

Answer 6

In technical term, however, not a word. "Electronic Access Control (EAC)".

Answer 7

plastikey

Answer 8

breaking and entering ?? lol