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old man

老头子,老汉,老头,老头儿

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : a father, usually one's own: His old man's letting him have the car for the prom.
    • : a husband: The office is giving my old man a retirement party.
    • : a boyfriend or male lover, especially a male lover with whom one cohabits.
    • : a person in a position of authority, especially an employer or a commanding officer: The Old Man has ordered an inspection for Saturday morning.
    • : .
    • : old Adam.
    • : southernwood.

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Examples

  • He didn’t do that this time, which, I’m glad, because he is an old man now.

  • Business magazine Caixin reported that in one district of Shijiazhuang, an old man was tied to a tree after venturing out to buy cigarettes, prompting the suspension of local officials.

  • People at NORAD then determine whether a new object is a threat — or if it’s just a magical old man with a load of presents.

  • A 41-year old man in Phoenix needs someone to help him get to the bathroom at night.

  • His old man lived alone and worked at a college three hours from us.

  • In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.

  • So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.

  • That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.

  • It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.

  • But no more so than the Sodexo building maintenance man or the two cops who were also killed in the crossfire.

  • Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.

  • The supernaturalist alleges that religion was revealed to man by God, and that the form of this revelation is a sacred book.

  • The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.

  • He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.

  • On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.