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lifetakers

lifetakers is the plural of lifetaker.

Meaning of lifetaker

Noun

lifetaker (plural lifetakers)

  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

Questions about lifetakers

What is lifetakers the plural of?
Lifetakers is the plural of lifetaker.

Words near lifetakers in the dictionary

  1. lifestylist
  2. lifestylists
  3. lifetable
  4. lifetables
  5. lifetaker
  6. lifetakers
  7. lifetap
  8. lifetelling
  9. lifetellings
  10. lifethread
  11. lifetime

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lifetakers (page history and authors); lifetaker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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