old-timer
noun› One who has been around for a long time or…
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An elder.
- A: Hey, how's it going, old-timer? B: Ha ha, nice try — you're even older than I am! A: It takes one to know one, after all.
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A veteran.
- Some of the old-timers around here might be able to tell you how it all began.
- It’s plain that older Americans have become a more important and reliable part of the audience that goes to movie theatres. Yet a few years ago, the Academy gave up on honouring old-timers in the show – because they wanted kids to be watching?2016 March 3, David Thomson, “Biggest lesson of the 2016 Oscars? The Academy should be scrapped”, in The Guardian:
- Related terms
- old-timer's disease, old timer's disease, old-timey