old soldier
noun
A male ex-soldier.More than 400 people had packed into the 14 th-century church, including old soldiers from the Royal Marines, Coldstream Guards and other regiments....
- Most nights middle-aged revolutionaries may be found sitting around grumbling about the morals of today's young ‘hoodies’ like so many old soldiers at a British Legion.
- I'm an old soldier, a paratrooper, this is my third war, including Yom Kippur and Beirut in 1982.
Phrases
come (or play) the old soldier
- biozone
- bipartisan
- bipartisanship
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- biped
- bipedal
- bipedalism
- bipedality
- biphasic
- biphenyl
- photo ID
- photo-imaging
- photoinactivation
- photoinduce
- photoinduced
- photoinducible
- photoinduction
- photoinductive
- photoinductive cycle
- photoinhibition
- photoinitiated
- photoinitiator
- photo ink
- photo-intaglio
- photointerpretation