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What does has-been mean?

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Noun
  1. (pejorative) A person, especially one formerly popular or influential, who continues in their field after their popularity or effectiveness has peaked and is now in decline.
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They thought he was an old has-been, that the fever had fuddled his wits, that his weeks of near-starvation had starved his brain-tissue into comatose stasis.
I still get invites but I feel like a dinosaur and a bit of a has-been now.
It had become what moviedom dreads most: a has-been.
I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dimwitted has-been.
As a writer Shepard is not nearly in the land of the has-been.
By the end of the year, they may be calling me a has-been and roasting McRae for getting me on the team.

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