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bar-fly
noun
a too-frequent frequenter of bars and saloons US, 1906- In the dingy half-light, in the thick, stale miasma of tobacco smoke and alcoholic fumes which are the atmosphere of the innumerable cocktail bars of our cities, a new character has entered the American scene. It is the female bar fly. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 14, 10 December 1947
- Barfly Mother Gone; Baby Happy [Headline] — San Francisco Examiner, p. 15, 8 January 1948
- Me, now, the first impression I’d had of her was that she wasn’t much to look at–just a female barfly with money. — Jim Thompson, After Dark, My Sweet, p. 7, 1955
- Janie wouldn’t be in a joint like this, she wouldn’t be hanging around with bar-flies. — Jim Thompson, The Kill-Off, p. 24, 1957
- The kid had still another beer, pulled the cheek of a middle-aged woman bar fly and bought her a drink. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 73, 1958
- A Los Angeles judge said that alimony laws were making “barflies” out of divorced women. — San Francisco News Call-Bulletin, p. 3, 18 May 1965
- She couldn’t bear the thought of sitting in a gin mill like a daytime barfly, avoiding the moves of local lotharios so old they were moldering. — Joseph Wambaugh, Fugitive Nights, p. 107, 1992
- I listened to a local barfly mutter ominously[.] — Brian Preston, Pot Planet, p. 91, 2002
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