Definition of a lifer

lifer    

noun

• a person with a life sentence in prison.
  • See more words with the same meaning: jail (related to).

  Last edited on Sep 09 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 09 2009.

• This describes one who plans to spend their working life in the military or government service.

  Last edited on Jan 08 2017. Submitted by Dr. P.D. Fisher on Jan 08 2017.

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Other terms relating to 'jail (related to)':
bid	Definitions include: a prison sentence.
time	Definitions include: time in prison.
Club Fed	Definitions include: federal prison.
clink, the	Definitions include: prison.
pad	Definitions include: home.
stretch	Definitions include: a period of time.
drunk tank	Definitions include: a holding cell for drunk people, usually in a county jail.
go downtown	Definitions include: to perform oral sex on a partner.
5-0'd	Definitions include: in jail
lock up	Definitions include: To fight someone.
jug, the	Definitions include: jail.
bust out	Definitions include: to yell at someone; "blow up".
bing	Definitions include: jail or prison.
klink	Definitions include: jail or prison.
hoosegow	Definitions include: jail.
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Other terms relating to 'life':
be life	Definitions include: to be good, enjoyable, important to a person, etc.
BFFL	Definitions include: acronym for "best friend(s) for life".
FML	Definitions include: acronym for "fuck my life."
for the life of (one)	Definitions include: as if one's life depended on it.
FYL	Definitions include: acronym for "fuck your life".
get a life	Definitions include: a generic insult.
hard-knock life	Definitions include: a life during which many bad things happen.
IRL	Definitions include: acronym for "in real life".
life	Definitions include: See also be life.
Life is a one way mission.	Definitions include: This describes a fatalist, philosophical view of life, based upon the military slang term for a mission which is terminal.
live life by the drop	Definitions include: To live with the present being the most important; to live a dream or to understand the unchanging world, so to speak.
low-life	Definitions include: a criminal or evil person.
MLIG	Definitions include: acronym for "my life is great".
not on (one's) life.	Definitions include: an assertion that something will never happen.
NSFL	Definitions include: acronym for "not safe for life".
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