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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | antique, gaffer, old-timer, old geezer |
| Type of | graybeard, greybeard, methuselah, old man |
Examples of oldtimer
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Even after rent and salaries, however, an oldtimer like Stalmaster can make about $150,000 a year.
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He will be missed What a great oldtimer.
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Last week in Chicago, another oldtimer bowed out.
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Her opponent, Democrat Bill Roy, a physician and lawyer, had run unsuccessfully for the Senate before and had been prominent long enough in Kansas politics to take on the aura of an oldtimer.
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- Veteran: an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service
- Old-timer: an elderly man
- (Oldtimers (Pern)) in Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series of science fiction novels, the Oldtimers are a group of dragonriders who are brought forward in time .
- (Oldtimers) Dragonriders and support staff brought forward in time from the 8th Pass Weyrs to help Benden, the one remaining 9th Pass Weyr, to fight Thread. Some of them could not adjust to the ways of the 9th Pass, and they were eventually exiled to Southern Weyr.
- A person with many years in the program. It's all relative, but most will agree that someone with over twenty years is an old-timer. How to become an oldtimer in A.A.: Don't Drink and Don't Die. Overheard at a 12-Step meeting.
- A member of one of the five Weyrs which Lessa brought forward four hundred Turns in time. Later used as a derogative tern to refer to one of the dragonriders who had to move to Southern Weyr.
