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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oldie
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
golden oldie
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
golden
▪ But after ramming their words back down their throats his enormous smile shows how delighted he is to be a golden oldie!
▪ Nor does anybody really expect a golden oldie like James Taylor to have much truck with contemporaneity.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the oldies get a consolation goal off the woodwork but the ref says it's all over.
▪ But after ramming their words back down their throats his enormous smile shows how delighted he is to be a golden oldie!
▪ Figures like that don't come on oldies, Nigel thought.
▪ Nor does anybody really expect a golden oldie like James Taylor to have much truck with contemporaneity.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
oldie

"an old person," 1874; "an old tune or film," 1940, from old + -ie. Related: Oldies, which is attested by 1961 as a radio format.

Wiktionary
oldie

n. 1 something or someone old 2 a song or record from a previous era 3 (''plural'') the genre of music that plays these songs

WordNet
oldie

n. a song that was formerly popular [syn: golden oldie]

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Usage examples of "oldie".

Once or twice I see the great Lionel Eldridge slouching around the halls of Oldie, but always from a distance.

Dear Dana Worth calls with the news that Theo Mountain, her Oldie neighbor, has decided to retire.

She came home from Oldie last night and he was there, sitting on the front step, wagging his tail in delight.

Piling into a Jeep, with only a roll bar and no roof, singing at the top of their lungs with a Jimmy Buffet oldie on the radio, they headed for the Hallelujah.

He had switched from news to oldies and had fallen to thinking about Pags and his harmonicas.

Turning up her preferred oldies station, she sang along to one of her favorite tunes, uncaring that she was totally tone deaf.

What were the chances that a radio station in Mississippi was playing the same song at the same time as his oldies station in Michigan?

With the stereo blaring golden oldies and the fire blazing, they twisted and two-stepped, strolled and macarenaed.

She opened all the windows and turned the car radio back to the oldies station.

Baggie into smoking, burning shreds and Stu Redman would become a Golden Oldie.

She opened all the windows and turned the car radio back to the oldies station.

They got through the first set on inoffensive pop tunes, rock and roll oldies, even one or two Broadway standards.

Plus I got a full caseload, like four other current homicides, to say nothing about a file full of oldies but goodies still outstanding.

The radio was always on to an oldies station and when a great one played, we'd stop what we were doing and dance to the Dixie Cups or Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders.

Hatch sat in the passenger seat with his shades on, one arm out his open window, tapping time against the side of the car as he listened to golden oldie rock-'n'-roll on the radio.