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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
washed-up
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a washed-up rock band
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Hayman had implicit trust in his hit-men, especially against some one he regarded as an old, rusty, washed-up veteran.
▪ Hoffman plays a washed-up news reporter who just happens to find himself in the museum when the action goes down.
▪ This talented, if washed-up musician wasn't harbouring Rose - though he might know of her whereabouts.
Wiktionary
washed-up

a. No longer capable, effective or needed; over the hill.

WordNet
washed-up

adj. doomed to extinction [syn: done for(p), ruined, sunk, undone]

Usage examples of "washed-up".

The pockets of their sodden cloaks and galligaskins were being rifled by those too small or infirm to loot the greater riches of the washed-up chests.

I cannot tell you how much I look forward to seeing tomorrow's headlines in all the American newspapers which so contemptuously wrote me off as a nonentity and washed-up has-been when I was deported two years ago.