dirty old man

noun

Informal.

1. a mature or elderly man with lewd or obscene preoccupations.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dirty old man¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

Bukowski growled and grumbled poems tersely, the “notes of a dirty old man.”

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He spoke in quips; when accused of being a dirty old man, he responded: “Who are you calling old?”

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I asked myself as I watched them lie shamelessly to the dirty old man.

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My reality self felt like a dirty old man who needed to pay to play.

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Nolan said she thought the Top of the Pops presenter was a "dirty old man" and was not surprised when his abuse was revealed after his death in 2011.

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