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Old European, small old man turning up with ladies? (8)

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I believe the answer is:

yugoslav

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'old european' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'turning up with ladies?' is the wordplay.
'turning up' becomes 'yugos' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'ladies?' becomes 'lav' (the ladies' lavatory).
'yugos'+'lav'='YUGOSLAV'

'small old man' is the link.
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(Other definitions for yugoslav that I've seen before include "National of former Balkan republic" , "Split with this person? Perhaps" , "from Croatia?" , "former statesman" , "old Republican" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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