"used-to-be" meaning in English

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          "text": "1888, Daily Evening Bulletin, Maysville, Kentucky, 3 September, 1888,\nMilburn Ellis, a used-to-be resident of this place, but now of the Grasshopper Country […] is visiting relatives here."
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          "ref": "1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 5, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 76:",
          "text": "Said it was a spittoon just like his used-to-be bossman used to have in his bank up there in Atlanta.",
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          "ref": "1980 November, Dave Pankey, “Mount St. Helens”, in All Volunteer, volume 33, number 11, page 5:",
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          "ref": "1983, Simon J. Ortiz, “3 Women”, in Fightin’: New and Collected Stories, Chicago: Thunder’s Mouth Press, page 79:",
          "text": "[…] I love her but something’s not there. I don’t even know if it’s love anymore. Maybe it’s just a used-to-be love.",
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          "text": "2004, Adrienne Rich, “Dislocations: Seven Scenarios,” 4, in The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004, New York: Norton, p. 88,\nher / orders don’t necessarily / get obeyed / because / the government / is paying / and the / used-to-be / warriors / are patients"
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