retread

Definitions

1. A used tire whose surface, the tread, has been replaced to extend its life and use.
2. A return over ground previously covered; a retraversal or repetition.
   figuratively, sometimes
3. A person who re-entered military service in World War II after serving in World War I.
   slang

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Examples

“In Our War the Retreads usually slinked in over-aged, over-weight and overcautious in the face⟳ of a new generation.”

“They were retreads and recruits under a small cadre of Regular Army officers and noncoms.”

“We retreads upset⟳ everybody.”

“As with the 100th Division, many of the replacements joining the 103d were "retreads" from the technical services or antiaircraft and aviation troops...”

“But The West Side Waltz is otherwise a tedious retread of Mr. Thompson's previous effort, On Golden Pond.”

“It uses a howitzer to shoot⟳ drugged fish⟳ in a barrel, inserts flabby lite-surrealism where the comedy might otherwise go and the plot turns out to be a retread of JM Barrie’s stage-play The Admirable Crichton.”

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