"old thing" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1920, Compton Mackenzie, The Vanity Girl, page 202:",
          "text": "Listen, old thing. When you first met me you wanted to put me in a little flat round the corner, didn't you?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Affectionate term of address for a person."
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "word": "old bean"
        },
        {
          "word": "old chap"
        },
        {
          "word": "old girl"
        }
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, dated) Affectionate term of address for a person."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "any old thing"
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        "colloquial",
        "dated"
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  "word": "old thing"
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  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "any old thing"
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          "ref": "1920, Compton Mackenzie, The Vanity Girl, page 202:",
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          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Affectionate term of address for a person."
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "word": "old bean"
        },
        {
          "word": "old chap"
        },
        {
          "word": "old girl"
        }
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        "(colloquial, dated) Affectionate term of address for a person."
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  "word": "old thing"
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