lifer
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪfə(r)
[edit] Noun
lifer (plural lifers)
- A prisoner sentenced to life in prison.
- A person who makes a career in the military.
- A bird species seen for the first time by a birder who is keeping a list of all the birds he or she has seen in their life time.
[edit] Translations
a prisoner
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a bird species
[edit] Anagrams
[edit] Old English
[edit] Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *librō, Cognate with Old Saxon levara (Dutch lever), Old High German lebara (German Leber), Old Norse lifr (Swedish lever).
[edit] Noun
lifer f.
- liver (interior organ)
[edit] Descendants
- English: liver
