career criminal

noun

: a person who has committed many crimes throughout his or her life

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In that film, Redford plays Forrest Tucker, a real-life career criminal known for escaping from prison several times and for committing a string of audacious bank robberies well into his later years. Hannah Parry amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025 One of Redford’s last screen roles, which presaged his retirement from acting in 2018, was as the career criminal Forrest Tucker in David Lowery’s The Old Man & the Gun. K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025 The Old Man and the Gun (2018) Redford gave his final great performance in this drama from David Lowery about the life of Forrest Tucker, a career criminal. Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025 Another of the Ajax player’s cars was being driven around by the son of Gwenette Martha, a career criminal who was gunned down in 2014 and left with 80 bullets in his body. Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for career criminal

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“Career criminal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/career%20criminal. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.

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