Usually means: Elderly male with extensive experience.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. old man: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Old Man, old man: Merriam-Webster
  3. old man, the old man: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. old man: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. old man: Collins English Dictionary
  6. old man: Vocabulary.com
  7. Old-man, old-man: Wordnik
  8. old man: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. old-man, old man: Wiktionary
  10. old man: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. old man: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. old man: Dictionary.com
  13. Old Man (The Legend of Zelda), Old Man (song), Old man, The Old Man (Seinfeld), The Old Man (TV series), The Old Man (Trifonov novel), The Old Man: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. old man: Rhymezone
  15. OLD-MAN: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  16. old man: FreeDictionary.org
  17. old man: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. old man: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. old man: Encyclopedia

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. old man, old man: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. old man: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Old man: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. Old Man: 1960's Slang
  5. old man, the old man: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Old Man)

noun:  (literally) An elderly man.
noun:  (colloquial) One's father.
noun:  (colloquial) A husband, or male significant other, irrespective of age.
noun:  (slang) One's male employer, irrespective of age.
noun:  (slang, military) A unit's commanding officer, or the commander of a naval vessel, irrespective of age.
noun:  (UK, dated) Term of address for a male friend, irrespective of age.
noun:  (theology, uncountable) Synonym of Old Adam
noun:  (uncountable, herbs) Synonym of southernwood
noun:  (Christianity) The state of human nature without the spiritual transformation brought about by redemption through Jesus Christ.
noun:  (Australia) Used attributively to denote something of exceptional size, strength, age etc.
noun:  A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as Old Man Winter or Old Man River.
noun:  A creator god in some Native American mythologies.
noun:  Short for Old Man of Coniston. [A mountain, 803 metres high, in Coniston parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD2797).]

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