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used-to-be

adj

Definitions

  1. Former, ex-.

    • 1888, Daily Evening Bulletin, Maysville, Kentucky, 3 September, 1888, Milburn Ellis, a used-to-be resident of this place, but now of the Grasshopper Country […] is visiting relatives here.
    • Said it was a spittoon just like his used-to-be bossman used to have in his bank up there in Atlanta.
    • “The mudflow destroyed houses on the eastern edge of my used-to-be recruiting area,” said [Staff Sergeant] David Orman of the Longview [recruiting station].

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