grey-haired

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Etymology

From grey +‎ haired.

Adjective

grey-haired (not comparable)

  1. Having grey hair.
    • 2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 60:
      Now, I'm a grey-haired git with a sense of arrogance born of surviving this long in RAIL.
  2. (by extension, figurative) old, wise, experienced.

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