Meaning of old man | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An elderly man.
   countable, literally, uncountable
2. A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as Old Man Winter or Old Man River.
3. One's father.
   colloquial, countable, uncountable
4. A creator god in some Native American mythologies.
5. A husband, or male significant other, irrespective of age.
   colloquial, countable, uncountable
6. Ellipsis of Old Man of Coniston.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
7. One's male employer, irrespective of age.
   countable, slang, uncountable
8. A unit's commanding officer, or the commander of a naval vessel, irrespective of age.
   countable, slang, uncountable
9. Term of address for a male friend, irrespective of age.
   UK, countable, dated, uncountable
10. Synonym of Old Adam.
    uncountable
11. Synonym of southernwood.
    uncountable
12. The state of human nature without the spiritual transformation brought about by redemption through Jesus Christ.
    countable, uncountable
13. Used attributively to denote something of exceptional size, strength, age etc.
    Australia, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“He smacked me around some. Didn't everybody's old man?”

“‘I use the same back-hand flip me old man useda use to knock me old lady arse-over-’ead an’ Stiffer than Mo.’”

“See, my old man's got a problem / He lives with a bottle, that's the way it is”

“"How'd your in-laws feel about you marryin' your wife? Maybe you could pass the paper bag and the comb test, but your old man had dark skin, kinky hair, and he was a dyed-in-the-wool baptist from out in the sticks."”

“Appearance: Tattooed. Also, uncannily like his old man.”

““[…] Now if that thing is balling—and your old lady or your old man is off somewhere flashing and doesn't want to be touched—well, you get put down on acid, you can be on a bummer for months.””

“I was going through my old man’s pockets this morning”

““Don't mention it, old man,” I responded courteously.”

“'Coming up, coming up, coming up,' Pop said. 'There you are, Charley, old man. Larkin Special. Don't ask what's in it. Don't stare at it. Don't think. Just drink it down. In ten minutes you'll feel perfick again.'”

“A new light has entered into the life and transformed it wonderfully, the soul has been born again, the old man has been put off, the new man which is akin to Jesus Christ has been put on.”

“‘You watch out for them old man brown snakes in here. I seen a shed skin back there in the hall.’”

“But it was really Old Man Concentration and his partner, Co-operation, that put across the big clean-up.”

“Big-Horn hadn't been told whom he was to fight, and when he found that it was Old Man Coyote, he was disappointed.”

“The Wiyot say that Condor recreated mankind after Old Man wiped out humanity with a flood.”

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