Old-timer

Tom is an old-timer.

Being of a highly Americanized old-timer generation of Filipinos, my mother still is not really accustomed to English. When my family first immigrated to North America, she pronounced "raspberry" with an unsilent P. After more than 45 years on the new continent, her accent still sounds foreign.

Her old-timer generation was not well-educated.

A: Hey, how's it going, old-timer?   B: Ha ha, nice try — you're even older than I am!   A: It takes one to know one, after all.

Some of the old-timers around here might be able to tell you how it all began.

It’s plain that older Americans have become a more important and reliable part of the audience that goes to movie theatres. Yet a few years ago, the Academy gave up on honouring old-timers in the show – because they wanted kids to be watching?