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bar fly

bar fly is the alternative spelling of barfly.

Meaning of barfly

Noun

barfly (plural barflies)

  1. (derogatory, slang) A person who spends much time in a bar or similar drinking establishment
  2. (derogatory, slang) A promiscuous person, especially a woman, who frequents bars hoping to find sexual partners

Forms of bar fly

pluralbar flies

Questions about bar fly

What is bar fly the alternative spelling of?
Bar fly is the alternative spelling of barfly.

Words near bar fly in the dictionary

  1. bar fight
  2. bar fights
  3. bar fine
  4. bar fines
  5. bar flies
  6. bar fly
  7. bar girl
  8. bar girls
  9. bar graph
  10. bar graphs
  11. Bar Harbor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bar fly (page history and authors); barfly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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