OLD-TIMER (old-timer)

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Irregular inflected form: old-timer   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does old-timer mean? 

• OLD-TIMER (noun)
  The noun OLD-TIMER has 2 senses:

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

2. an elderly man

  Familiarity information: OLD-TIMER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLD-TIMER (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-timer" is a kind of...):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

An elderly man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

antique; gaffer; old-timer; old geezer; oldtimer

Hypernyms ("old-timer" is a kind of...):

graybeard; greybeard; Methuselah; old man (a man who is very old)

 Context examples 

But it took a subtler insight to read the grim smile which flickered over the smith’s mouth, or the smouldering fire which shone in his grey eyes, and it was only the old-timers who knew that, with his mighty heart and his iron frame, he was a perilous man to lay odds against.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)