lifestyler
/ˈlʌɪfstʌɪlə
/noun
1A person who adopts a particular lifestyle, typically an unconventional one: she doesn’t seem like a flamboyant rock-and-roll lifestyler...
- Traditional working class left voters joined with middle-class lifestyler lefties to elect the Green in Cunningham, and the independent Liberal candidate pitched in.
- It is derogatory term for juvenile a 'lifestyler' anarchist with somewhat undercooked political views.
- Who doesn't moisten at the thought of Dubya fingering the big red button lifestyler.
2NZ A person who runs a smallholding or small farm as a hobby, not as a commercial enterprise: unlike the lifestylers, they have an understanding for business imperatives...
- It's leasees and sharemilkers, not those with a lifestyler mentality, that are sweating about the increases.
- Yeah look I will struggle to make it - the CAA has just driven up and want to followup a compliant from one of my lifestyler neighbours who are claiming my helicopter spraying around their block is killing them and I therefore have no right to control my weeds - so it looks like I will be pulling the thistle chipper out of the back of the shed
- It is possible that the self-selected categories (lifestyler, hobby/smallfarmer or farmer/horticulturalist) may not correspond neatly with intensity of production.
Origin
1970s (in sense 1): from lifestyle + -er1; sense 2 dates from the 1980s and is derived from lifestyle block.
- cut-off
- cut off one's nose to spite one's face
- cut one's losses
- cut one's own throat
- cut one's teeth
- cut (or pare) something to the bone
- cut (or tear) something to ribbons
- cut out
- cutover
- cut-price
- cutpurse
- cut-rate
- cutscene
- cut someone dead
- cut someone down to size
- cut someone in
- cut someone off
- cut someone off (or down) in their prime
- cut someone out
- cut someone some slack
- cut someone/thing loose (or free)
- cut someone/thing short
- cut someone to pieces
- cut someone to the quick
- cut someone up