old-timer

Noun

old-timer (plural old-timers)

1. An elder.
   • A: Hey, how's it going, old-timer? B: Ha ha, nice try — you're even older than I am! A: It takes one to know one, after all.

   Synonyms:

   oldster, oldie, senior citizen, ager, antique, badge-cove, cheeser, coffin dodger, crinkly, eld

2. A veteran.
   • Some of the old-timers around here might be able to tell you how it all began.
   • It’s plain that older Americans have become a more important and reliable part of the audience that goes to movie theatres. Yet a few years ago, the Academy gave up on honouring old-timers in the show – because they wanted kids to be watching?2016 March 3, David Thomson, “Biggest lesson of the 2016 Oscars? The Academy should be scrapped”, in The Guardian

   Synonyms:

   old hand, warhorse