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Reply Mon 26 Jan, 2009 08:25 pm
I need your help.

"It's the other geezer over here, isn't it?"

Some man said this when he saw an extremely law microphone stand.
Could you tell me what it means?
There are a few men(including some man) and a woman on stage.

Thanks in advance.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 26 Jan, 2009 08:57 pm
@mirrormirror,
Perhaps you mean an extremely low microphone?

It still doesn't make sense. Geezer means an old person, is mildly pejorative, and is usually applied to men rather than women.
solipsister
 
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Reply Mon 26 Jan, 2009 09:53 pm
@Setanta,
it was a peremptory pejorative prerogative, in short

game set and match?
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Ragman
 
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Reply Tue 27 Jan, 2009 01:56 am
@mirrormirror,
A geezer is slang meaning old person, generally male. The context you indicated something about a low (?) microphone .... as a guess ... perhaps this means an old microphone, but frankly I've nver heard the expression used to refer to a thing ...only a male person.
Ragman
 
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Reply Tue 27 Jan, 2009 02:03 am
@Ragman,
Perhaps the low microphone was FOR the older man?
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mirrormirror
 
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Reply Tue 27 Jan, 2009 02:11 am
Thank you ALL for answering such a weird question.
(Sorry about the spelling mistake anyway.Yes,it's "low" .)

He seems to refer to the old microphone as a geezer, as Ragman says.
Setanta
 
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Reply Tue 27 Jan, 2009 09:43 am
You're missing a point which Ragman made. The word geezer is used to refer to people, but not to things. If the intent of the author was to suggest that someone would refer to an old object, a thing, as a geezer, then i would say the author is not a native speaker of the English or the American language.
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JTT
 
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Reply Tue 27 Jan, 2009 11:09 am
@mirrormirror,
Quote:
There must/could have been some reference to one man previous to the person saying and seeking confirmation,

"It's the other geezer over here, isn't it?",

gesturing perhaps to "over here".
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Ragman
 
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Reply Tue 27 Jan, 2009 08:45 pm
@mirrormirror,
Sorry, but please reread what I wrote. An older male person is a geezer, never would anyone referring to the microphone.
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