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life saver

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life⋅sav⋅er

[lahyf-sey-ver]
–noun
1. a person who rescues another from danger of death, esp. from drowning.
2. a person or thing that saves a person, as from a difficult situation or critical moment: That money was a lifesaver.
3. Chiefly British. a lifeguard.

Origin:
1880–85; life + saver


lifesaving, adjective, noun
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life saver

noun
a candy shaped like a small lifesaver 
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