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Eccentric old-timer
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geezer
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Word definitions for geezer in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context informal chiefly British dated in US English) A male person. 2 (context UK slang English) Informal address to a male. 3 (context informal chiefly US sometimes mildly derogatory English) An old person, usually a male, typically a cranky old ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Geezer is a slang term for a man. In the UK, it can carry the connotation of either age or eccentricity. In the US, the term typically refers to a cranky old man; see fuddy-duddy . Geezer may also refer to: Geezer Butler , the founding bassist for Black ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1885, variant of obsolete Cockney guiser "mummer" (late 15c.; see guise ).
Usage examples of geezer.
Inside, Judy Cuttle had done what she could to turn a mobile home into an Edwardian farmhouse, complete with antimacassars and rusty photos in bamboo frames of geezers in waistcoats and glum women in cameoes.
An old geezer not much more prosperous than Dweeb studied us with the mild eyes of a herd animal and attempted a smile.
Lordy, Lordy, that one geezer on the judging panel about swallowed his false teeth when he saw yer belly button ring.
Have a bit of a rest from home-made muesli and debates about the geezer.
The old geezer behind the counter gave me a fisheye, no doubt wondering where the devil I wanted to go to this time without buying anything.
I was kind of hoping maybe Kamar and DC and Lindsey would get back before the geezer did so we could just go on to the party and forget about it.
Before leaving Moscow he should tip the media, get a TV truck out to Eternity, expose the fact that the great Yuri Lebedev was running more than a night club, the old geezer had become a minor fucking deity in charge of a franchise in the afterlife catering to murderers, hookers, and various relics of the Cold War.
Sitting in an ancient leather chair that was beginning to hurt his legs, Malachi sipped a Harper hundred and watched the denizens of Geezer Gulch as they went through their martinis and cackled about the latest administration outrage.
The sands were crowded with pranged tanks and dead geezers still in them.
The way I was describing Dietz made him sound like some an old geezer who could barely walk. In truth, Dietz had been gone so long that my claiming him as a boyfriend was patently ridiculous.
For, alas, they weren’t Babylonian sorcerers or Jesuit warrior-priests or Druidic warlocks after all, but an unmatched set of small-town apothecaries, bored noblemen, and crack-pated geezers, with faces that were either too slack or too spasmodical.
He had all this Gucci kit on, and it was obvious he saw himself as a really smart, tasty geezer, but in fact he looked like a bag of bollocks.
The guns, the quietude, the serenity of those old geezers, and the idiotic TV program, the enthralled children without a care in the world--it had upset him, he couldn't get his bearings straight.
Bruno muttered, shooting his father and the rest of those old geezers a finger.
Before I left, I got a shot of the building exterior with some old geezers standing on the sidewalk in a huddle.