old sport

noun

A term of endearment for a friend.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounold sport (plural old sports)

plural old sports

  1. A term of endearment for a friend.

    "Why not let her alone, old sport?" remarked Gatsby. "You're the one that wanted to come to town."

    1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 7, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
sweetheart
Cite this entry
APA

old sport. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/old%20sport

MLA

“old sport.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/old%20sport. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “old sport,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/old%20sport.

Source: old sport on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.