noun General Slang

lifer

· noun · prison

Someone serving life.

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A prisoner doing a life sentence. On the wing, lifers are a tribe of their own — settled in, often calmer than the short-stretch lads, because for them this isn't a phase, it's the address.

“The lifers run the library — they've got nothing but time to read.”
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By extension, anyone who's spent their entire career somewhere and is never leaving. A lifer at the company, a lifer in the army.

“Thirty years at the same factory — proper lifer.”
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lifer In A Sentence

The lifers run the library — they've got nothing but time to read.
Thirty years at the same factory — proper lifer.

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