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old sports

old sports is the plural of old sport.

Meaning of old sport

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

Questions about old sports

What is old sports the plural of?
Old sports is the plural of old sport.

Words near old sports in the dictionary

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

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