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LIFER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lifer mean?
• LIFER (noun)
The noun LIFER has 1 sense:
1. a prisoner serving a term of life imprisonment
Familiarity information: LIFER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A prisoner serving a term of life imprisonment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("lifer" is a kind of...):
con; convict; inmate; yard bird; yardbird (a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison)
Derivation:
life (the condition of living or the state of being alive)
life (the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death))
life (the period from the present until death)
life (a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives)
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