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- adjective adhering to an original field of practice
- adjective characteristic of an older style
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Examples
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Just a few comments about the 'oldskool' way of living here in Bocholt (N-E of Belgium).
Kirsten Dirksen: America's Post-Fast Food Era and Europe's Old-Skoolers 2010
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Both motion controls (with nunchuck) and 'oldskool' classic controls will be available.
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The winner of this year's "oldskool demo competition" at the Assembly 2009 (a festival of low-level assembly programming) is this sweet animation, "3½ inches is enough" by Unreal Voodoo, which is apparently running on some kind of monochrome 68K classic Macintosh.
Boing Boing 2009
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I think there's something very enticing about that oldskool way of life.
Kirsten Dirksen: America's Post-Fast Food Era and Europe's Old-Skoolers 2010
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I like how they have oldskool Adult Swim bumps now.
the day's happenings. tragic_elegance 2007
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I like oldskool 8bit games and I've seen a few cupcakes on flickr that go along with the theme of Mario Bros.
Cupcake interview with Bre Pettis, cupcake decorating contest organizer and co-founder, Ignite NYC 2008
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That "Dino" is totally the oldskool Dig Dug dragon!
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I found the posts much easier to read with the oldskool tiled image.
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We oldskool players who import some aspects of roleplaying into playing WoW are not having a very loud voice anymore and no one listen when we claim RMT is undesired.
Attitudes to RMT 2007
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Michael said: "It's not about dance battles, we are bringing back the 'oldskool' flavour when people used to do social dances in the club, like the Running Man, the Wop and the Bart Simpson, if you don't know about these dances check out our facebook page house party club nights."
Evening Standard - Home J.J Anisiobi 2011
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