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A career US marine after a war ends who keeps reenlisting and makes the corps
his home.It stands for Lazy Ignorant Fuck Expecting Retirement.

Not to be confused with professional US marines that love the Marine Corps and
stay because its their chosen profession. LIFERS stay because they sit around,
don't do shit,Spit shine their boots and kiss the officers asses.They fuck the working dedicated marines every chance they get.
Sgt.Wright is a LIFER. He couldn't hold down a civilian job at Mickey dees.
LIFER by Joedecop September 20, 2014
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Someone who, despite forces to the otherwise, continues doing something for an extended period of time.
Guy 1: "That dude is 45 and he is *still* skateboarding?"

Guy 2: "Yeah, man. He has been skating since he was 10-years-old. He is a lifer, no doubt."
lifer by lone sentry December 21, 2007
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Intelligent but socially inept employees who lack the motivation to look for another job in this lifetime
The Lifer is often an unambitious lower-level employee who has been with the company since the dawn of Man.
Someone who makes a career out of working in a particular call center. There will usually be one or two people in a call center that have been there for eight years or so (maybe longer) who have somehow escaped the regular fire-hire process that call centers go through. They usually have a tired, burnt-out look to them and can be seen hunching over their workstation in a hazy daze.
Rob wanted to be a lifer but he kept getting canned because of his metrics.
lifer by Spirit Bear October 28, 2004
Someone who will spend the rest of their life in prison
Most of the lifers here are miserable since they know they will never leave the prison again.
lifer by sweet catastrophe August 29, 2009
In the military or elsewhere
A lowly insufficient fucker expecting retirement
And that's Pat over there, sitting on his ass, drinking coffee. He's a real lifer.
Lifer by Dwight_Guy February 27, 2015
A person who is part of the set who grace the pages of the various '<insert county> Life' magazines which are published across England, such as Staffordshire Life, Cheshire Life, Kent Life etc.

These people can usually be spotted wearing Joules, tweed and/or Jack Wills, holidaying in Abersoch and Falmouth, riding horses or attending garden parties with people just like themselves. Their children tend to act like chavs, except they have more money to burn.
Yar, well, Jonty and Henrietta Fitzherbert-Jones went with Venezia and Clemency Carter-Williams to Fal this Summer, and came back so brown, just in time for the Harrington-Smythe's Summer Ball. SO JELL. LOL. = Total Lifers.
Lifer by DaisyB July 9, 2011