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Old timers

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1860, OED Evaluation: N/A

A person with long experience of some place or position; an elderly person.

ExampleMeaning
I'm not sure of that but I have heard Harry-James, say he's one old timer, he said that he understood that they came with the United-Empire-Loyalists, but I couldn't be sure of that.
Elderly people
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But everybody blended in pretty well considering it was real mix of the old timers and a lot of young people who were- who were coming into the business th-- it'd be right around that time because that was an explosion of young teachers um from about ah nineteen-sixty-six right on through to seventy-one seventy-two and just new teachers coming in- in droves.
Elderly people
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I played ah- one wint-- a couple of winters I played old timers hockey. Until she got- she wouldn't come watch me no more.
Elderly people
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It is for the younger people, like I said, for the people above like nineteen and twenty, all there is- is baseball and like old timers hockey type-thing but there's no like basketball, volleyball.
Elderly people
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As- after the d-- like you would dance and then at midnight there would be sandwiches and all the sweets you would want, pickles. Every meal in the county pretty well- the old timers had pickles at every meal. You always had a pickle with meal.
Elderly people
Whether it's true or not, I don't know. But that's what the old timers used to say. But you never went- you never had a meal that you didn't have pickles. There was always pickles.
Elderly people
You-know, that was- you-know- my c-- 'cause when my sister made Christmas cakes the- my son-in-law says "Boy, this is really good." And- but the old timers made Christmas cake. The old timers did down peaches and pears and tomatoes.
Elderly people
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Well, you-know the old timers used to say though Garrett, that if you- you can kill anything if you hit them in the right spot with a twenty-two.
Elderly people