lifetaker

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From life +‎ taker.

Noun[edit]

lifetaker (plural lifetakers)

  1. A murderer; an assassin.
    • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 86:
      ‘I don't know hell's first whisper about you. You might be a lifetaker for all I know.’
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