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n. Elderly person, old-timer; "A crotchety, fussy, ineffectual old man" (Rosten).
"We'll have to have the program early, so the alte kakers can come."
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אַלטער קאַקער alter kaker 'lit. old shitter'
altakaka, alte kakker, alter kaker, alter kocker, alte kocker, alta kaker, alta kaka
"Alte" used with "kaker" is incorrect according to Standard Yiddish grammar (alte is feminine and kaker is masculine), but correct in Jewish English. In Standard Yiddish, the phrase would decline as "alter kaker" in nominative and "altn kaker" in accusative and dative.
This expression was once vulgar but now is not.
Often abbreviated to A.K. / AK.
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