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lifer
noun- a career member of the armed forces US, 1962
- There was a lifer in San Diego who was dumped for indebtedness. — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 13, 1970
- And they played songs like “Good Night Irene” and “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now” and “I Love You a Bushel and a Peck”–music nobody ever heard of but the gray-headed lifers. — Larry Heinemann, Paco’s Story, p. 12, 1986
- Oh wowww–the lifers made a mistake, they cuttin’ me some slack. — Platoon, 1986
- A collection of “Lifers”; what the hell was I doing there, a reluctant draftee? — Odie Hawkins, Men Friends, p. 58, 1989
- Having served in Korea as a dogface grant, he knew a lifer when he saw one. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 27, 1993
- a prisoner sentenced to penal servitude for life AUSTRALIA, 1827
- Among the lifers in Alcatraz, who never again will freely see the light of God’s sun or draw a free breath, there are classes. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 16, 1948
- How sweet and truly Christian it would be if every priest, minister and rabbi would be responsible for a lifer and take him out for just one day so he could see his artwork on a sign or perhaps on a license plate[.] — Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, p. 71, 1965
- They kept all us lifers in chains. — Patrick White, A Fringe Of Leaves, p. 275, 1976
- The North Block cats were more than pets, they were the only living things in a lifer’s stone-shrunk world from which he could expect the unconditional reciprocation of his affection. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 44, 1990
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 71, 1996
- a person who has been given a traffic ticket US, 1984 Ironic usage.
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 4, Spring 1984
- a drug addict US
- — Eugene Landy, The Underground Dictionary, p. 120, 1971
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