old timer
One with experience
An old timer is someone who has been around a long time—a veteran of a place, profession, or activity: The old timers at the factory remember when everything was done by hand.
It also refers to an elderly person generally, often with affection or nostalgia.
The term can sound patronizing or dismissive depending on context.
Also spelled old-timer.
- graybeardVenerable elderly man
- veteranExperienced former soldier
- warhorseSeasoned campaigner or mount
- mossbackUltraconservative, especially rural
- gafferFilm's chief electrician
long in the tooth · elder · antique · chronicler · patriarch · folklorist · vintage · retiree · rocking chair · legend · seasoned · mentor · stalwart · cowpoke · pioneer · bygone · back in my day · rancher
- age slanggeezer, codger, coot, fogey, whippersnapper
- aging humorretirement jokes, senior moments, senior moment, over the hill, geezer
- bar patronsregular, local, barfly, drunk, bartender
- seniorssenior citizens, senior, elderly, aged, retiree
- small townmayor, town square, council, general store, diner
- agesinfant, child, kid, teen, adult
old timernewcomer
Recent arrival somewhere
newbie · rookie · novice · greenhorn · new arrival
old timeryoungster
Person of tender years
young person · youth · young buck · young blood · spring chicken
old timermodernizer
One who updates systems
progressive · innovator · early adopter · trendsetter · futurist
old, timer, older, oldest, olden, oldie, oldster, time, times