OAP
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old-age pension
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OAPs
British, old-fashioned
: an elder recipient of a government pension There were a few kids; mostly, they were OAPs: a crowd of perhaps twenty people. — A. N. Wilson, Scandal, or Priscilla's Kindness, 1983
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old-age pensioner
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