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flyboy
noun- a military aviator US, 1937
- — American Speech, February 1951
- The flyboys’re apeshit. — William Wilson, The LBJ Brigade, p. 77, 1966
- From an elevation of 200 feet or so, and in a gray overcast, a helicopter came buzzing back and forth. Stokely Carmichael of Snick had quipped over the microphone, “CIA’s flyboys.” — Sidney Bernard, This Way to the Apocalypse, p. 33, 1967
- But it took the fly-boys, the 415th Artillery, and our APC’s to clear the decks. — David Parks, GI Diary, p. 108, 1968
- I made contact with some flyboys at a nearby SAC base[.] — Joey V., Portrait of Joey, p. 147, 1969
- Them goddamn Navy fly-boys always thought they were hot shit, but the surface Navy is the Navy. — Jimmy Buffett, Tales from Margaritaville, p. 132, 1989
- in drag racing, a hobbyist who confines their passion to weekend racing US
Punning on the 1940s “aviator” sense of the term. - — John Lawlor, How to Talk Car, p. 46, 1965
- — Lyle K. Engel, The Complete Book of Fuel and Gas Dragsters, p. 151, 1968
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