Definitions for lifer

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lifer lif·er

Spelling: [lahy-fer]

IPA: /ˈlaɪ fər/

Lifer is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in lifer (efilr).

Definitions for lifer

noun

1. a person sentenced to or serving a term of life imprisonment.
2. a person committed to a professional lifetime career in the military.
3. a person who has devoted a lifetime to a profession, occupation, or pursuit.
4. Also called life bird. a species of bird not seen previously and that will therefore be added to the bird watcher's life list. the sighting of a bird of a previously unseen species:

Origin of lifer

First recorded in 1820-30; life + -er¹

Examples for lifer

There is a lifer here in Folsom, Matthew Davies, of old pioneer stock, who is trusty of the scaffold and execution chamber.

They get more mail, by far, than a lifer or your average inmate coming home.

The djinn was in for a lifer, and was immortal; so thought Challis to himself.

Hunder'd'n One—lifer—plays off crazy—forty lashes every Monday.

If you stay here, you're a marked man; and when you are found tripping it'll be a lifer for you, at the least.

"'E'll get a lifer, that's a certainty," she observed to the lodgers downstairs when she had left the horror-stricken boy alone.

But that means a significant portion of the lifer population is behind bars for a non-homicide, Nellis points out.

Up the beach we chased, and dragged out the boat we called our ‘lifer.’

A lifer, an' hasn't a friend in th' woild, but he's happy as th' day's long.

The report reveals some disturbing trends in the current lifer prison population, Nellis says.