back number

English

Noun

back number (plural back numbers)

A back issue of a magazine, etc.
- 1941 December, “Back Numbers of "The Railway Magazine"”, in Railway Magazine, page 574:
  Because of war conditions and rigid paper control, it is now impossible for us to keep supplies of recent back numbers.
Anything considered old-fashioned.

Synonyms

(magazine): back issue
(something considered old-fashioned): has-been

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