old sport
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]old sport (plural old sports)
- A term of endearment used to a friend.
- 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 7, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC:
- "Why not let her alone, old sport?" remarked Gatsby. "You're the one that wanted to come to town."