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Context: Character A, a middle-aged man, suddenly enters the room where Riku,
a child, is.

> Character A: 何してんだ？リク
>
> Riku: いつものおじさん

Then, in the next balloon (it's a manga), Riku explains what he was doing.

What is いつもの in the sentence above? Is it an adjective? If so would the
translation be "oh, the usual man/the man that always comes here"? Or is it
the object of the implicit sentence "(I'm doing) the usual, old man"? I would
say it is an adjective, because if it was the object it would be いつもの **を** ",
right? Thank you for your help!
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grammar particles
Is いつもの an adjective or the object in the following sentence?
Yes this simply means "the man who always comes here".

いつもの彼/いつものお客さん/etc is a common way to refer to _that_ person you often see or
talk about ("you-know-who"). [例の](http://jisho.org/word/%E4%BE%8B%E3%81%AE) is
similar.

In reality, it's unusual to directly address a person with いつものおじさん, and this
smells a bit like 説明セリフ to me. 説明セリフ is an jargon term that refers to
unnatural lines in fiction (often long one) which only serve as a description
_for the readers_. (Here are [typical
説明セリフ](http://ja.uncyclopedia.info/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB:%E6%96%AC%E3%81%AE%E3%83%81%E3%83%B3%E3%83%94%E3%83%A9.png)
in a battle scene; he talks to himself to explain to the readers)
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