| 释义 |
flyer
noun- a chance, a gamble, a risk US
Originally a financial speculation. Also spelt “flier”. - I could’ve just took a flyer and that, could’ve done a runner and hoped for the best. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 256, 2001
- a conversational line used to start conversation when seeking a sexual encounter US
- Flyers–opening statements; ice-breakers used when cruising. — Bruce Rodgers, The Queens’ Vernacular, p. 83, 1972
- a person who threatens to or has jumped to his death US, 1987
- — Maledicta, p. 180, Summer/Winter 1986–1987: “Sexual slang: prostitutes, pedophiles, flagellators, transvestites, and necrophiles”
|