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fly
adjective- good, pleasing, fashionable US, 1879
A term which has enjoyed three bursts of popularity–in the swing jazz era of the late 1930s, the emergence of black exploitation films in the early 1970s, and with the explosion of hip-hop culture in the 1980s. - — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 24, 1945
- In fact, the smooth, know-it-all act I put on was so strong that a lot of the girls took me for a bigtime pimp. Marcelle must have figured me for a fly cat goo, and her curiousity was aroused. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 23, 1946
- I had planned to get next to the colored maid there, who’s pretty hip, but not hip enough to be fly, if you know what I mean. — James Blake, The Joint, p. 17, 18 March 1951
- They were something fly–suede with the wet look on top of suede and heels. — Susan Hall, Gentleman of Leisure, p. 49, 1972
- I’m runnin’ round with these fly broads from 111th Street and Fifth Avenue. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 11, 1975
- And his fabulous sky was broke so fly/ That the city had it banned. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 48, 1976
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 3, Fall 1984
- This is some fly shit, huh? Like some James Cagney, George Raft-type shit. — New Jack City, 1990
- I remember when attractive women were simply “fly” and great records were “da joint.” — Nelson George, Hip Hop America, p. 209, 1998
- But whatever I’m wearing, I like to be looking fly. — Style, p. 96, July 2001
- cunning, devious; artful, knowing UK, 1724
From Scottish dialect fly (sly; smart). - cunningly discreet UK
A slight variation of the previous sense. - He’d be off to the storeroom for a refill and a fly fag [cigarette], or maybe just a wank if he was out of snout. — Christopher Brookmyre, Boiling a Frog, p. 341, 2000
- in the youth trend for “souped-up” motor-scootering, daring, dangerous, clever UK
- The boy looks over his shoulder to see if his mates–four other boys on bikes–are following, but more importantly, to check they saw his “fly” manoeuvres. — The Independent Magazine, p. 17, 28 August 2004
- aware of what is going on; wise to criminal ways AUSTRALIA, 1882
- FLY–Wide awake; smart. — Gilbert H. Lawson, A Dictionary of Australian Words and Terms, 1924
- Come on. You’re not too fly not to know what they are. — John Wynnum, Tar Dust, p. 18, 1962
- [W]hen the gang attempted to inveigle the black down to the “pub”, they saw that he was too fly for them. — Bill Wannan, Folklore of the Australian Pub, p. 41, 1972
- unreliable; dishonest TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
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