old man
noun
1
informal
a
: husband
"You see the back of that house with the broken porch rail. Mrs. Danaker lives there. She takes in washin'. Her old man was killed on the railroad."—
Jack London
Jack London
b
: father
When he had everybody around him, all of us, all the kids, my old man was in heaven.—Philip Roth
Philip Roth
c
: boyfriend
… Kate's friend Carol, who knew about such things because her current old man knew the advertising man at Rolling Stone …—Cyra McFadden
Cyra McFadden2
or Old Man informal
: a man in authority
especially
: commanding officer
Pershing disliked MacArthur's cowboy individualism and the impudence with which he treated the old man's headquarters staff. —U.S. News & World Report
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“Old man.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/old%20man. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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Oldman
geographical name
Old·man
ˈōld-mən 
river in southern Alberta, Canada, that rises in the Rocky Mountains near the border with British Columbia and flows 200 miles (320 kilometers) east to unite with the Bow River, forming the South Saskatchewan River
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