Meanings of back-number in English

Those men haven't got any use for a back-number old place like this.

They'd come up and try warming their hands over my head, an' all those back-number jokes.

It was a back-number pleasure, they agreed, but that, like an old print, it held a charm in its quaintness.

He smiled wanly and asked for his mail, which consisted only of a pile of back-number copies of a newspaper.

The betting market, however, appears to view him as a back-number and he is on offer at 100-1.

He ran away with the Sun Alliance Chase at his peak and proved he was no back-number with terrific runs at the track this season.

The old back-numbers whom they were to have ousted so ruthlessly?

Still, back-numbers have their feelings-andtheir memories.

Mr. Henry James has never gathered into a book from the back-numbers of magazines the half of his earlier efforts.

Goat breeders admit that goats are found of roughage, but the animals draw the line at tin cans, old tire casings, back-numbers of Esquire, etc.

"I'm not a back-number yet, but it's lucky the opposition don't know how hard it was for me to get up."