Smell Like Old Edit Meaning

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To have that indefinable, yet distinctive smell commonly found in old people's homes, clothing, nursing homes. Usually a mix of mothballs or cedar, a week's worth of cooking smells, unwashed clothing with a dash of b.o. and incontinence. Known to cling to clothing and hair of other folks after visiting old neighbors or relative.

Dude. You been hangin' out with gramma? You smell like old.

See smell, old, senior, senior citizen, mothballs, whoopi