Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In any aging process, noting a result (usually of a detrimental character) brought about by carrying the process too far: a term frequently used in the logwood industry and by textile colorists.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective too old to be useful.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective too old to be useful
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Examples
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Clear example of a flip flopper, opportunist, and an overaged moron who thinks the American people have a very short memory span.
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Tate was an overaged fifty, and used the letters to blow off steam.
Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010
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It happened when Jackie Robinson was trying to claim a fourth title with a heavier fighter, overaged, out of shape, who couldn't knock down a sick chorus girl.
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Cindy looked like a Botoxed, overaged Glinda the Good Witch in that get-up.
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ITEMS Conventional Wisdom George Foreman Lost the fight, but won the war for overaged fat people everywhere,
Comebacks Edition 2008
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As an overaged secondary-school student in Baghdad in the mid-1950s, Saddam found himself drawn to the Arab nationalism sweeping the region, and developed a taste for political intrigue.
More Than A Madman 2008
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Scott, who's gone from being a hormone-revved adolescent to a hormone-revved overaged adolescent, gets better at it with every attempt: he and Rudd, at each other's throats, create delightful comic friction.
The Laugh Factory 2008
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In any case, Tammy Savage's project has won at least one crucial, though overaged, convert.
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The overaged fanboys can lament the demise of Raijin Comics and the failure of DMP to follow through with the seinen side of their initial “mandate” all they want.
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You write of Roth “sounding like an overaged kid in a bar mitzvah suit trying to get a good check out of Aunt Sadie.”
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