Definitions from Wiktionary (Rip Van Winkle)

▸ noun:  (fiction, US) A Dutch-American villager who falls asleep for 20 years and wakes up to a changed world, having missed the American Revolution; (by extension) someone or something stuck in the past.
▸ Also see rip_van_winkle


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