Meaning of retread | Babel Free

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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