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Style of robbery through a broken display window

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I believe the answer is:

smash-and-grab

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'style of robbery through a broken display window' is the definition.
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'a broken display window' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'a' could be 'an' and 'an' is located in the answer.
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(Other definitions for smash-and-grab that I've seen before include "Type of shop window robbery" , "Break-in (through a shop window)" , "Sudden robbery" , "Type of raid" , "Descriptive of a robbery" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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