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old man
noun- a father US, 1811
- “First I want revenge because their fathers sent my old man to die in the pen.” The Crawler’s eyes were blazing with hate as he spoke. — Chester Gould, Dick Tracy Meets the Night Crawler, p. 40, 1945
- My old man came home from work one night when I felt like I was coming on, and I grabbed the horn to show off while he was eating his supper, but he scramed, “Stop blowing so loud–you sound like a fog horn.” — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 50, 1946
- Gee, my old man is going to hit the ceiling. — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 77, 1947
- My old man says them Puerto Ricans is ruinin’ free ennaprise. — Stephen Sondheim, West Side Story, 1957
- “Who’s Sugartit’s father?” “You mean her old man?” “I mean her father.” — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 101, 1959
- The thing I wanted to avoid was suddenly and without warning meeting my old man on the subway. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 420, 1961
- The Muncys bought me new in Germany when the old man was stationed over there in the army. — Gurney Norman, Divine Right’s Trip (Last Whole Earth Catalog), p. 9, 1971
- Let him see what his old man does for a living. — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 20, 1986
- a boyfriend or husband UK, 1768
- An old man is another thing. An old man is like a marriage without the legal binding[.] — Leonard Wolfe (Editor), Voices from the Love Generation, p. 243, 1968
- “Who’s that in back there?” asked the Greek when Estelle got back to the bus. “My old man.” — Gurney Norman, Divine Right’s Trip (Last Whole Earth Catalog), p. 67, 1971
- We don’t need no piece of paper / From the city hall / Keeping us tied and true / My old man / Keeping away my blues. — Joni Mitchell, My Old Man, 1971
- The ho is similar in her role to the hippy chick who holds down a straight job and puts on her neat little dress and makeup in the morning to go out and face the working world, so she can bring home money to her long-haired “old man[.]” — Christina and Richard Milner, Black Players, p. 212, 1972
- One old sort [wife] even asked me to kill her old man once. — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 90, 2001
- a commanding officer, military or police US, 1830
- The old man gave the order to move. — David Parks, GI Diary, p. 51, 1968
- [A]t which point, of course, we were called up for a little quiz-session by the Old Man. — Joey V., Portrait of Joey, p. 155, 1969
- There was a lifer in San Diego who was dumped for indebtedness. The old man got sick of the dunning letters so he had the man discharged and thereby made the matter a non-navy problem. — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 13, 1970
- “Anyway, the captain says no more of it,” Bridget continued, “and another thing the old man says is that you guys are not at any time to push cars with your police vehicle.” — Joseph Wambaugh, The New Centurions, p. 55, 1970
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field: The Language of the Vietnam War, p. 156, 1991
- a pimp in relation to a prostitute US, 1891
- Clippinger added that he knew all the pimps who had “teams” of girls in southern California, but disliked to hire girls who had “old men” for masters. “Old men” was explained to mean pimps with teams of girls. — Ed Reid and Ovid Demaris, The Green Felt Jungle, p. 101, 1963
- [E]ventually he became her real old man instead of her play old man and moved in with her and let her support him and go down on lots of fat cats and high rollers for lots of money[.] — Joseph Wambaugh, The Choirboys, p. 190, 1975
- an elder amongst the Australian Aboriginals AUSTRALIA, 1848
- Then he urged the Old Men to “sing out” those responsible for the death of his son. — Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, p. 26, 1947
- — Bob Ellis and Anne Brooksbank, Mad Dog Morgan, p. 59, 1976
- used as a form of address to another man UK, 1885
- One was a man he recognized, who said “Hello, old man” as the other three crowded round him. — The Daily Telegraph, 26 June 2000
- the penis UK, 1984
- He’d balance six half crowns along the length of his “old man”. — Lenny McLean, The Guv’nor, p. 115, 1998
- a shark US
- — John M. Kelly, Surf and Sea, p. 289, 1965
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