old people

English

Noun

old people pl (plural only)

1. (Australia) Aboriginal people of earlier generations, or living in a traditional manner, as regarded by their descendants as repositories of traditional knowledge. [from 20th c.]
   • 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 273:

     ‘You don't see them figs nowhere else up here. And it didn't get here by accident neither. Them old people planted her beside the springs in a sheltered place against the rocks hundreds of years back.’