Crossword clues for lifer
lifer
- Permanent con
- Unpardonable one?
- Type of prisoner
- Permanent pen pal?
- One with much time on his hands
- One who doesn't get out
- Office fixture?
- Certain con
- Career military person
- Career employee
- Big house fixture
- Repeated re-upper
- Prisoner who'll never be paroled
- Permanent resident of Alcatraz
- Permanent pen resident
- Permanent cell occupier
- One with very long sentence
- One with an endless prison term
- One with a run-on sentence?
- One who'll always be in
- One who can't be paroled
- One devoted to a single profession
- One committed to a military career
- No quitter
- Military careerist
- Many an admiral
- Longtime employee
- Longtime con
- Inmate with no hope of parole
- In response to declining sales, the photojournalism magazine launched a campaign to turn the short-term subscriber into a ___
- Die-hard fan no matter what, in slang
- Constantly confined con
- Committed type, say
- Committed careerist
- Career service member
- Can fixture
- Army careerist
- One with no hope of getting out
- One who can't get out
- Career officer
- Inmate who's never getting out
- One who serves long?
- Career soldier
- Prisoner who'll never get out
- One stuck in the can
- One with a long, long sentence
- One who never changes jobs
- Long-term inmate
- Big house party?
- Subject of a long sentence?
- Long-term convict
- Long-time mil. professional
- Three-time loser, perhaps
- Long-term prisoner
- Permanent pen person
- Cell occupant
- Kind of prisoner
- Kind of con
- His sentence is lengthy
- One with a long sentence
- Certain prisoner
- Certain convict
- Current judge retires after initially libelling prisoner
- Convicted murderer, say, has story about fellow murderer, ultimately
- One may have used rifle criminally?
- Prisoner, one fellow held by the French King
- Prisoner seen backsliding in feature film
- Person sentenced to prison until death, unless paroled
- Old pro
- Permanent prisoner
- Permanent inmate
- One who never gets out?
- He's in for good
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"prisoner serving a life sentence," 1830, from life (n.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A prisoner sentenced to life in prison. 2 A prisoner sentenced to transportation for life. 3 A person who makes a career in the military. 4 A bird species seen for the first time by a birder who is keeping a list of all the birds he or she has ever seen.
WordNet
n. a prisoner serving a term of life imprisonment
Usage examples of "lifer".
His pen scratched briefly, then Lifer signed his name with a scraggly flourish.
Inch by inch, Lifer forced himself to walk toward that projecting shadow of himself.
Before Lifer could utter a sound, the figure in the alley sprang at him.
The eyes of The Shadow, watching at a tiny peephole, were able to observe the motionless body of Lifer Stone, and beyond him the locked street entrance of the garage.
He lifted Lifer in a strong grip and placed him in the rear of the taxi.
They would keep Lifer Stone out of circulation, until they heard from The Shadow.
There was still ample time before the train would arrive at the Ossining station to take him to New York in the guise of Lifer Stone.
The release of Lifer Stone from Sing Sing was undoubtedly part of the war.
A convict named Lifer Stone had been suddenly released and was on his way to New York.
He handed Lifer a cigarette, for the benefit of any casual observers, and left him abruptly.
For the next few minutes, the four pudgy racket leaders listened to an amazingly accurate account of what had happened to Lifer Stone, from the moment he had arrived at Grand Central up to the instant he had fled from the unconscious body of Joe Cardona.
One of them was charged with the task of bringing Lifer Stone back to this sinister room.
They had recognized Lifer Stone, a convict for whom a general police alarm was out for the assault on Inspector Cardona.
Out there, police were diving into the river in a grim search for the drowned body of Lifer Stone.
He would have been less cocksure had he seen the pale face of Lifer Stone.