old geezer

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old geezer - an elderly man

antique, gaffer, oldtimer, old-timer

graybeard, greybeard, old man, Methuselah - a man who is very old

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Leastwise, thirty years ago, when I was in Honolulu, I met a man, an old geezer, who claimed he'd been a harpooner on a whaleship sunk by a whale off the coast of South America.

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If you bump into an old geezer on the pavement he will apologise.

Maybe we need some 'old geezer' values now

My laughing stops when I see Old Geezer isn't joking.

AKA KEITH CARTER TALES OF A JOBBING COMIC ON THE COMEDY CIRCUIT; Keith Carter is an award winning Liverpool comedian, radio and TV writer and has toured extensively throughout the UK and overseas

Pervy as that may sound, O'Toole brings such tenderness, understanding and self-effacing hilarity to the role that you can't help but feel for the naughty old geezer.

PETER O'TOOLE ON VANITY, ROMANCE AND THAT EVER-ELUSIVE OSCAR

At the expense of sounding like an old geezer reminiscing about the good ole days when we didn't even have hard drives in our laptops, allow me to provide concrete examples of where we may have been distracted or taken dangerous detours on Route 1:1.

Laptops in adolescence: growing pains and disappointing the elders

One who is not an old geezer with respect to his view of right and wrong.

From John Lukenda

An old geezer from work tried to hold my hand intimately by pretending to look at my wristwatch, saying 'I've never seen such a fine watch.

Shutting up "Sekuhara Sam": framing a simple rule

I didn't think that they knew who I was, and I felt like this old geezer," she says.

THE CHANGER AND THE CHANGED

We miss the Old Geezer, as he often referred to himself.

Remembering Tommy Neal

He's the last because mentors have to be older than you, and I'm getting to be an old geezer myself.

Find a geezer and start learning

Easy Irving appeared out of character as himself, Joe Stone, a well-preserved thirtysomething with a foofy blond coiffure, a discreet hoop earring, and the uncanny capacity to transform himself instantly into an annoying old geezer who is both deaf and meddlesome, fully capturing the nightmare of living with the hard of hearing.

Miami fantasia, part 2

It concerns the accidental shooting of the resident derelict of the town of Eldritch by a spinster who thinks, mistakenly, that the old geezer has been attempting to rape Eva, a crippled teen-age girl (performed with a glint of madness by Danielle Du Clos), when in fact the dear old fellow has been trying to prevent Eva's teen-age boyfriend