used-to-be

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Adjective

used-to-be (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) Former, ex-.
    • 1888, Daily Evening Bulletin, Maysville, Kentucky, 3 September, 1888,
      Milburn Ellis, a used-to-be resident of this place, but now of the Grasshopper Country is visiting relatives here.
    • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 5, in Their Eyes Were Watching God‎, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 76:
      Said it was a spittoon just like his used-to-be bossman used to have in his bank up there in Atlanta.
    • 1980 November, Dave Pankey, “Mount St. Helens”, in All Volunteer, volume 33, number 11, page 5:
      “The mudflow destroyed houses on the eastern edge of my used-to-be recruiting area,” said [Staff Sergeant] David Orman of the Longview [recruiting station].
    • 1983, Simon J. Ortiz, “3 Women”, in Fightin’: New and Collected Stories‎, Chicago: Thunder’s Mouth Press, page 79:
      […] I love her but something’s not there. I don’t even know if it’s love anymore. Maybe it’s just a used-to-be love.
    • 2004, Adrienne Rich, “Dislocations: Seven Scenarios,” 4, in The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004, New York: Norton, p. 88,
      her / orders don’t necessarily / get obeyed / because / the government / is paying / and the / used-to-be / warriors / are patients

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