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ˈused-to-be, n.
[use v. 21.]
1. A person whose time of popularity or efficiency is past; also = ex n.1 U.S.
1853[see has-been n.]. 1911[see never-was s.v. never adv. 8]. 1942L. Hughes Shakespeare in Harlem 50, I want to tell you 'bout that woman, My used-to-be—She was de meanest woman I ever did see.
2. (See quot.) nonce-use.
1883J. W. Riley Poems Here at Home (1893) 21 There lies a land, long lost to me, The land of Used-to-be. |