LIFER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A prisoner serving a term of life imprisonment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("lifer" is a kind of...):

con; convict; inmate; yard bird; yardbird (a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison)

Derivation:

life (the condition of living or the state of being alive)

life (the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death))

life (the period from the present until death)

life (a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives)