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fly-boy

fly-boy is the alternative form of flyboy.

Meaning of flyboy

Noun

flyboy (plural flyboys)

  1. (slang) An aircraft pilot, especially of a military combat aircraft.
    • Big Al was back in town, and Cooper, the happy-go-lucky flyboy who was one of the Original Seven, was squashed.1999 March, Eugene Cernan, Don Davis, The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space, 1st edition, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 227
  2. (historical, slang) A man employed to clear the printed copies from the printing press.

Forms of fly-boy

pluralfly-boys

Questions about fly-boy

What is fly-boy the alternative form of?
Fly-boy is the alternative form of flyboy.

Words near fly-boy in the dictionary

  1. fly-bombed
  2. fly-bottle
  3. fly-bottles
  4. fly-box
  5. fly-boxes
  6. fly-boy
  7. fly-boys
  8. fly-by
  9. fly-by salute
  10. fly-by salutes
  11. fly-by-night

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