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geezer

[ gee-zer ]

noun

, Slang.
  1. an odd or eccentric man:

    the old geezer who sells shoelaces on the corner.



geezer

/ ˈɡiːzə /

noun

  1. a man


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Word History and Origins

Origin of geezer1

1880–85; variant of guiser ( guise (v.), -er 1 ), representing dial. pronunciation

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Word History and Origins

Origin of geezer1

C19: probably from dialect pronunciation of guiser, from guise + -er 1

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Example Sentences

I just did one [Geezer] with Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day.

He displayed “an attitude of complacency,” with one likening him to “a dodgy geezer.”

To someone my age (47) Keith Richards (67) in his memoir Life has a kind of rare healthy post-Empire geezer transparency.

There are no fireworks at the end of this memoir but just the sweet ease of geezer-rockdom.

Plus, click here to read syndicated columnist and co-founder of Wowowow.com Liz Smith on geezer buying power.

Many more of them kind, Pippin reflected, would carry the old geezer off, sure thing.

I hold here an envelope to be delivered to Tomasso Slade—main geezer of the Elks.

But wont it jar the old geezer when his pipe goes out, to-night?

"Something's biting the old geezer," he informed Hal and Ellis.

He's th' geezer that made fame up to Poison Knob three years ago.

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