old-timer
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But now, decades later, Creech is mostly known inside the walls of the Idaho Maximum Security Institution as just “Tom,” a generally well-behaved old-timer with a penchant for poetry.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
Luis Angel Firpo in the old-timer category and Theresa Kibby in the women’s trailblazer category were the other fighters in the class.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
An unexpected departure for the duo was “The Straight Story,” a 1999 Disney film starring Richard Farnsworth as an old-timer driving cross-country on his riding lawn mower.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2022
“I’m an old-timer, and I find it hard to believe that anything can be so weak,” Cheng says.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 12, 2022
It made him feel like an old-timer, venerable.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
