Usually means: Former romantic partner, still remembered.
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  1. old flame: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. old flame: Collins English Dictionary
  3. old flame: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. old flame: Wiktionary
  5. Old Flame (Juice Newton album), Old Flame (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. old flame: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. old flame: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (old flame)

noun:  (idiomatic) A previous boyfriend or girlfriend; a former romantic partner, especially one for whom one still has romantic feelings.

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