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What does has-been mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word has-been? Here's what it means.

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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I still get invites but I feel like a dinosaur and a bit of a has-been now.
By the end of the year, they may be calling me a has-been and roasting McRae for getting me on the team.
The next day, at the audition, Betty has to act the same scene with a lecherous has-been, and suddenly she does it with surprising lubricity.
My pinball skills were no longer celebrated, I was a has-been, a thing of the ancient past.
The judge asks him if he can think of any reason he shouldn't be shipped off to prison and if there's anyone out there who cares about a washed-up has-been.
As a writer Shepard is not nearly in the land of the has-been.

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