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Has-been   /hˈæzbˌɪn/   Listen
Has-been

noun
1.
Someone who is no longer popular.  Synonym: back-number.






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"Has-been" Quotes from Famous Books



... American politics—a more aggravating little parasite than even Miltonius Park. Take a gentleman's advice and apply the soft pedal to your wheezy calliope—get off the political stage in time to avoid the coming cataclysm of sphacelated cabbage and has-been cats. The day of your destiny's over and the star of your fate is in the mullagatawny. You are simply a fragment of worthless political seaweed cast with flabby jelly fish and dead sting rays upon an inhospitable shore, there to rot and befoul the atmosphere. You have "a very ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann



Words linked to "Has-been" :   back-number, oldster, golden ager, old person, senior citizen



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