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has-been
noun
a person whose best days and greatest achievements are in the past UK, 1606- [N]ow they say that he was just a bag of wind, a guy with a big mouth, a punch-drunk pug, a has-been. — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 57, 1947
- James Mason wading into the sundown on account of being a has-been and all. — Frederick Kohner, Gidget, p. 4, 1957
- Some guy might boast about how he is going to get out next time and stay out, and some will put him down by saying he’ll soon be back, playing marbles like a hasbeen[.] — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 43, 1968
- Who says Toots never talks to has-beens? — Jim Bouton, Ball Four, p. 97, 1970
- [I]ncreasingly bitter old washed-up hasbeen. — Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, p. 377, 1981
- The first four were aging has-beens and never-weres. They were so grateful for this one more job ... that their biggest worry was not to lose control and piss all over their master’s leg. — Robert Campbell, Alice in La-La Land, p. 195, 1987
- Oh I was a singer in a big band but now I’m a has-been so I need to get my head back in a magazine. — Shaun Ryder, Shaun Ryder... in His Own Words, 1994
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