grayhead

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From gray +‎ head.

Noun

grayhead (plural grayheads)

  1. (Canada, US) A person with gray hair; an elderly person.
    • 2009 March 11, “Doctor-Patient-Computer Relationships”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:
      What is most troublesome to me is that our residents — no matter how much we grayheads or graybeards model the approach to history-taking from parents — learn that the checklist on the computer screen is the thing to look at, and not the living person describing their child and her problems.

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