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What is a lifer?

What is a lifer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  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. (birdwatching) A bird species seen for the first time by a birder who is keeping a list of all the species he or she has ever seen.
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The fact that a decision to change the category of a lifer has not been made does not prevent the prisoner being moved.
He has been called a basketball lifer not because he has spent his whole life in the game, but because the game is such a big part of life.
One long-term lifer, a woman in fact, told me once that she never met a lifer in her time in prison who didn't approve of capital punishment.
To reach the threshold of exceptional progress there would also need to be some extra element to show that the lifer had done good works for the benefit of others.
Colorado pitchers put the Astros lifer over the top, delivering his last five plunks, three by Jason Jennings.
At that time there was a lifer population of some 5200 prisoners, of whom over 3700 were mandatory lifers, in prisons in England and Wales.

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