Usually means: Referring to a distant past.
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  1. way back when: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. way back when: Wiktionary
  3. way back when: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (way back when)

adverb:  (idiomatic) At a time in the distant past.
adjective:  (idiomatic) At a time in the distant past.

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