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old sport

old sport noun: a term of endearment for a friend.

Noun

old sport (plural old sports)

  1. A term of endearment for a friend.
    • "Why not let her alone, old sport?" remarked Gatsby. "You're the one that wanted to come to town."1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 7, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN

Forms of old sport

pluralold sports

Questions about old sport

What does old sport mean?
Old sport means a term of endearment for a friend.
What part of speech is old sport?
Old sport is a noun.
What is the plural of old sport?
The plural of old sport is old sports.

Words near old sport in the dictionary

  1. old sourdoughs
  2. Old South
  3. Old South Arabian
  4. Old Spanish
  5. Old Sparky
  6. old sport
  7. old sports
  8. old squaw
  9. old squaws
  10. old stager
  11. old stagers

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