grandfather rights
(also grandfather's rights) originally US
noun
Rights granted because of the prior existence of a similar right or privilege.
Origin
1930s.
- earth pea
- earth people
- earth person
- earth-pig
- earth pigment
- earth pillar
- earth plane
- earth plate
- earthquake
- earthquake fault
- earthquake-gown
- earthquake light
- earthquake lightning
- earthquake-proof
- earthquake-proofing
- earthquake-resistant
- earthquake swarm
- earthquake wave
- earthquake weather
- earthquakey
- earthquaking
- earthquaky
- earth return
- earth-ridge
- earthrise