[
US
/ˌoʊɫdˈtaɪmɝ/
]
NOUN
- an elderly man
- an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service
How To Use old-timer In A Sentence
- Wall Street's old-timers knew from hard experience that, despite the hype, the market could not escape the law of gravity.
- These multitude blunders of the FFI 2004 only confirm the opinion that the organizers should be comprised of young people, instead of old-timers who suddenly resurface with the revival of the film scene.
- Australia's third biggest bank is facing a difficult upcoming AGM as a well-regarded bank manager runs for the board against two old-timers with a bit of baggage.
- The old-timers meanwhile resisted dilution of the great franchise enjoyed by the name.
- Sometimes a gap-toothed old-timer comes to her door and screams for some peace.
- According to the inhabitants, many left when their children bought flats and moved to the mainland, leaving the island with just some old-timers.
- `Sounds like the start of old-timer 's disease,' my mum said, and it was terrifying, one more thing for my wife to worry about. MAN AND WIFE
- I say I think I can recommend the book because, belonging as I do to the hairy-eared old-timers, I may not be in the book's true target audience.
- The egg-and-tomato treatment he received at the hands of Congressmen in the Mumbai University hall (front campus) is still recalled by old-timers.
- In River Pigs and Cayuses, he gathers stories from old-timers in Washington, Idaho, and Montana.