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flier
noun- in sports, a very fast start; in cricket, a swift rate of scoring at the beginning of a match UK, 1984
A shortening of conventional “flying start”, usually in the phrase “off to a flier”. - Trust Tebbutt to get Tuscan off to a flier. — The Observer, 1 June 2003
- in target shooting, a shot that strikes outside a close group of shots on the target US
- — American Speech, p. 193, October 1957: “Some colloquialisms of the handgunner”
- a prisoner who commits suicide by jumping or is murdered by being thrown from the top tier of a prison US, 1942
- — John R. Armore and Joseph D. Wolfe, Dictionary of Desperation, p. 29, 1976
- to have an affair US
- “But that didn’t mean that once in a while he wouldn’t take a flier with a nice-looking girl on the bill. He just needed sex.” — Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls, p. 23, 1966
▶ take a flier
to leave US, 1914- Remembers his mama stopped slaving in white folk’s mansions ... took a flyer in show biz ... exotic dancer[.] — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Long White Con, p. 25, 1977
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