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单词 lifetimer
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lifetimern.

Brit. /ˈlʌɪftʌɪmə/, U.S. /ˈlaɪfˌtaɪmər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: lifetime n., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < lifetime n. + -er suffix1. Compare earlier lifer n.
Now rare.
A person serving a sentence of life imprisonment; = lifer n. 2. (figurative in quot. 1926.)
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > long-timer > lifer
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1907 J. E. Main Booze Route 106 So now he is a ‘life-timer’ for murder that he did while in a people-endorsed, government-licensed, protected saloon.
1926 J. Black You can't Win v. 48 Life-timers of society, they were slowly sinking without a straw to grasp at.
1933 J.H. Craige Black Bagdad 23 Two were nondescript vagabonds in for a short term for petty offenses, and the third was a life-timer.
1950 Dixon (Illinois) Evening Tel. 16 June 1/2 They were trailing Long in the hope he would lead them to a prison friend, Omar Pinson, a lifetimer who escaped from the Oregon penitentiary.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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