A person with a criminal record.
a defendant with a rotten record: a history-sheeter, a bad egg
Example sentencesExamples
- And everyone has history-sheeters, that unique phrase coined in India simply because the world never felt the need for it.
- He is a history-sheeter and he should be sent behind bars.
- The commissioner said Bharat was a history-sheeter who served a one-year sentence in Tihar jail.
- Pictures of most of the history-sheeters are stored in these computers.