| 单词 | two-time loser |
| 释义 | > as lemmastwo-time (or three-time, etc.) loser 4. U.S. slang. A convicted criminal, a person who has served a sentence in prison. So two-time (or three-time, etc.) loser, a person who has been in prison twice (or three, etc., times). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > one who has been long or often in jail Newgate bird1580 bridewell bird1590 jail-bird1603 prison-birda1640 old hand1826 repeater1873 old lag1910 loser1912 in-and-out boy1937 1912 D. Lowrie My Life in Prison xi. 127 T'day some four 'r five time loser'll drive up with a year. 1912 D. Lowrie My Life in Prison xxvii. 337 He was a ‘ten-time loser’ the last time I saw him; i.e., he had served nine previous terms at either San Quentin or Folsom. 1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 56 Loser noun, current amongst prison habitues. An ex-convict... Examples: ‘Three-time losers cop life in some states.’ 1926 Clues Nov. 161/2 Loser, one who has served a prison sentence. 1931 Amer. Speech 7 117 Two-time loser, a prisoner who has been convicted twice. ‘He's a two-time loser; got the book the second time.’ 1939 E. S. Gardner D.A. draws Circle (1940) xii. 213 He's a two-time loser. 1950 H. E. Goldin Dict. Amer. Underworld Lingo 129/1 Loser, anyone convicted of a felony. (A second felony conviction makes one a ‘two-time loser’; a third conviction, a ‘three-time loser’, etc.) ‘I'm a four-time loser on the next pinch (arrest).’ 1973 Houston Chron. 14 Oct. (Texas Mag.) 4/1 Bob, a three-time loser with a long line of busts and drug abuse..was sick of his life. < as lemmas |
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