Usually means: Traditional methods valued by predecessors.
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  1. old-school, old school, the old school: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. old school: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. old school: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. old school: Collins English Dictionary
  5. old school: Vocabulary.com
  6. Old-School, Old-school, old-school, old school: Wordnik
  7. old-school: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. old-school, old school: Wiktionary
  9. old school: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. old school: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Old school, old-school, old school: Dictionary.com
  12. old-school (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Old School (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Old School (Hedley song), Old School (Helix album), Old School (John Conlee song), Old School (TV series), Old School (film), Old School (movie), Old School (novel), Old School (quartet), Old School, Old-school, Old school (tattoo), Old school: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. old school: Rhymezone
  15. old school: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. old school: Free Dictionary
  17. old school: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. old-school, old school: Dictionary/thesaurus

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(Note: See old_schools as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Old School)

noun:  Preceded by the: a group of people characterized by being conservative or traditional; also, a method for accomplishing a task, a style, or a way of thinking that was employed in a former era, remembered either for its inferiority to the current method, or for its superiority over the new way.
noun:  (music) A style of popular music regarded as more old-fashioned or traditional, or not following newer trends; specifically (often old skool), hip-hop or rap music of the late 1970s and 1980s (or more recent music of this style) as contrasted with newer styles of such music.
adjective:  Now often old-school: characteristic of a method for accomplishing a task, a style, or a way of thinking that was employed in a former era, remembered either for its inferiority to the current method, or for its superiority over the new way.
adjective:  (music) Of or relating to a style of popular music regarded as more old-fashioned or traditional, or not following newer trends; specifically (often old skool), of or relating to hip-hop or rap music of the late 1970s and 1980s (or more recent music of this style) as contrasted with newer styles of such music.
adjective:  (US, Christianity, politics) Chiefly in the form Old School: having conservative or traditional views on Christianity or politics.
adjective:  (idiomatic, US, Christianity, politics) Alternative letter-case form of old school (“having conservative or traditional views on Christianity or politics”) [Now often old-school: characteristic of a method for accomplishing a task, a style, or a way of thinking that was employed in a former era, remembered either for its inferiority to the current method, or for its superiority over the new way.]

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