repeat offender
noun1
A person who has previously offended against the law, often someone who may be deemed incorrigible.
2
One who performs a specific (often undesirable) action on multiple occasions.
- At the risk of being branded a repeat offender. I must admit that this chapter is a reprise, in miniature, of an earlier book of mine with the same title.2011, Jeff Reid, Cat-Dependent No More, →ISBN:
- Derived terms
- repeat offend
- Related terms
- recidivism, three strikes and you're out, three-strikes law, zero tolerance