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fossil
noun- an old person with outmoded ideas and values US, 1952
- [H]e didn’t know how to tell her that the oldest fossil in the joint wasn’t fifteen years his senior. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 230, 1993
- a parent US
- “Cause it’ll be my eighteenth birthday, and the fossils promised to buy me a Harley if I pass math.” — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 59, 1957
- in computing, a feature that is retained after it is no longer needed in order to preserve compatibility US
- — Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 166, 1991
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