OLD HAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does old hand mean? 

• OLD HAND (noun)
  The noun OLD HAND has 1 sense:

1. an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service

  Familiarity information: OLD HAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLD HAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

old-timer; old hand; old stager; oldtimer; stager; veteran; warhorse

Hypernyms ("old hand" is a kind of...):

expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)

 Context examples 

And yet you saw how she thanked me, with her so beautiful dying eyes, her voice, too, so weak, and she kiss my rough old hand and bless me?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He blew a hole in the skirt of my kimono, bless his shaky old hand, but we got a jacket on him, and he's to be all right in a week.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)