old timey
Adjective
Meaning
old timey (comparative more old timey, superlative most old timey)
(informal) old-time
old-timey (comparative more old-timey, superlative most old-timey)
(US, informal) Reminiscent or representative of an older time.
Alternative names
old-timey
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Examples
An old-timey one, like the model last used at Mount Royal in 1918, would be an attraction in itself.
And our friend knows nothing about sports, and so he would always do his old-timey radio impression of this guy, and not knowing any positions in baseball or whatever, he would just be like, "homestar runner for the Braves."
Sci-fi thriller, old-timey cyberpunk, grody procedural—Cronenberg litters his typical themes of transformation and transmutation throughout a story that, at practically any moment, feels like it could turn completely on its head.
On Saturday, July 4, Genesee Country Village & Museum's Independence Day Celebrationwill be outdoors, old-timey, and full of bunting, cake, and historic artisan demonstrations.
As she totters across the room to change in an old-timey beach cabana set up off to the side, she makes sure to thank everyone along the way, emerging later in an off-the-shoulder Stevie Nicks-ish blouse and black pleather pants.
And yet that future looks a lot like what I imagine to be America’s past: teens in ironed T-shirts and baseball caps, happy to shoot the breeze over milk shakes in an old-timey diner.