definitions

old soldier

noun

a former soldier or veteran
an experienced or practised person

Nearby words

old skool, old slavic, old slavonic, old sledge, old sod, old soldier, old soldiers never die; they only fade away, old south, old south arabian, old spanish, old spanish trail
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Examples from the Web for old soldier

  • Old-soldier resource and much hard swearing failed to make it a workable vehicle.

    Pushed and the Return Push|George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)

  • But fully sixteen lagging years had dragged by since then; and for the old-soldier element the times were out of joint.

    Old Judge Priest|Irvin S. Cobb

  • There were Pompeius and Corvinus, old-soldier friends with whom he exchanged reminiscences of the hard campaign.

    Horace and His Influence|Grant Showerman