flyboy

flyboy

slang A pilot or other member of an air force. The bar near the base is usually filled with cocky flyboys bragging about doing barrel rolls or whatever.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

flyboy

n. a pilot. (Military.) Rocko was a flyboy in Korea.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • (as) crooked as a barrel of fish hooks
  • crooked
  • crooked as a barrel of fish hooks
  • on the
  • sound as a barrel
  • funny as a barrel of monkeys
  • (as) funny as a barrel of monkeys
  • barrel fever
References in periodicals archive
A hybrid steam-punk, sci-fi, comic-book fantasy, detective fiction of a novel that is at moments hilarious and also deeply moving, The Mexican Flyboy follows the exploits of Simon Vegas, a man obsessed with martyrs and innocent people who over time have suffered needlessly.
Former India pacer Rudra Pratap Singh took to Twitter and wrote, "Time to spread your wings and flyboy, best wishes on a big opportunity which knocks at your door, make it count Rishab Pant."
There's plenty of action courtesy of Liam Hemsworth and newcomer Jessie Usher (as the grown-up son of Smith's flyboy hero), who play fighter-pilot jocks with a strong dislike of each other.
Demmie Vee, who broke into the music scene with his hit track,Tiff, last year was said to have been signed to Daniel's Flyboy Inc, following the success of his song, last week, called out Daniel in an Instagram post, branding him a 'traitor'.
I was commissioned as a flyboy in class 43C and ended up driving B-24s for 25 combat missions in the 389th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force in the European theater.
Greg Tate, Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader (Duke University Press, 2016)
Enemies of the Clintons were delighted to hear Tom Cruise was using one of his rare nonaction blockbuster roles to tell the true-life-ish story of Barry Seal, a flyboy man of mystery murdered in 1986 by associates of Colombian drug lords.
The collective fanboy Internet can breathe easier over George Lucas's favorite flyboy.
While Rose is a mechanic, Paige, her sister, is a Resistance pilot and fighter who gets some lessons from X-Wing flyboy Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac).
CATTERICK: 1.50 Emphatic, 2.25 Crotchet, 2.55 Desert Ace, 3.30 Udontdodou, 4.05 Theos Lolly, 4.40 Flyboy, 5.10 Our Cilla.
Flyboy deserves respect when he goes to post at Carlisle for a sevenfurlong handicap.
Storm Melody 2.40 Bath 1pt win VVIT might be worth forgiving Flyboy's latest run 7.20 Leicester Flyboy went out like a light after travelling smoothly into at Redcar last time, but it later transpired he had bled from the nose and it might pay to treat it as another promising effort since joining Richard Fahey in May.
The Giant's Causeway gelding looks to have Richard Fahey's Flyboy to beat.
For this leg of his Connected Album Tour he is bringing along one of his collaborators Bodhi plus local support from Makaze and FlyBoy.
Greg Tate; FLYBOY 2; Duke University Press (Nonfiction: Essays) 25.95 ISBN: 9780822361961