career criminal

noun

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

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Mann’s Heat starred Al Pacino as a hardened Los Angeles cop named Vincent Hanna who, ignoring his deteriorating personal life, is obsessed with tracking down career criminal Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro), who wants to pull off one last heist before retiring. Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025 In Play Dirty, Wahlberg stars a career criminal named Parker, who’s double-crossed by a member of his team after a robbery. Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025 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 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 18 Oct. 2025.

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