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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

lifetaker en · NOUN

Etymology

From life + taker.

Meanings

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

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