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old in the tooth

old in the tooth adjective: synonym of long in the tooth (“old, aged”).

Adjective

old in the tooth

  1. Synonym of long in the tooth (“old, aged”).

Synonyms of old in the tooth

Questions about old in the tooth

What does old in the tooth mean?
Old in the tooth means synonym of long in the tooth (“old, aged”).
What part of speech is old in the tooth?
Old in the tooth is an adjective.

Words near old in the tooth in the dictionary

  1. old horse
  2. Old Hundred
  3. Old Hundredth
  4. Old Hungarian
  5. Old Icelandic
  6. old in the tooth
  7. Old Indic
  8. Old Indo-Aryan
  9. Old Ingarsby
  10. Old Ionian
  11. Old Ionic

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