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Back-number   /bæk-nˈəmbər/   Listen
Back-number

noun
1.
Someone who is no longer popular.  Synonym: has-been.






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"Back-number" Quotes from Famous Books



... are as distinctly survivals from a dead past as is the wooden shanty which occupies one of the best sites on Fifth Avenue, in the very shadow of the new Delmonico's. I wish tasteless, conventional, and machine-made architecture were as much of a "back-number" in England as it is here. A practised observer could confidently date any prominent building in New York, to within a year or two, by its architectural merit; and the greater the merit the later ...
— America To-day, Observations and Reflections • William Archer



Words linked to "Back-number" :   senior citizen, old person, golden ager, oldster



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