In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers. Nowadays life peerages, always of the rank of baron, are created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 and entitle the holders to seats in the House of Lords, presuming they meet qualifications such as age and citize...
Life peer is London Cockney rhyming slang for a homosexual (queer).
[n] - a British peer whose title lapses at death
noun a British peer whose title lapses at death