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Oldster

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who is old. informal

    "The oldsters start squabbling about whose memory is better. “It was cold that day,” one says about some faraway memory. “What are you talking about? It was May, late May,” says another."

  2. 2
    an elderly person wordnet
  3. 3
    A midshipman of four years' standing; a master's mate.

Etymology

From old + -ster, modelled after youngster.

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