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flyboys

flyboys is the plural 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.

Questions about flyboys

What is flyboys the plural of?
Flyboys is the plural of flyboy.

Words near flyboys in the dictionary

  1. flyboat
  2. flyboats
  3. flybook
  4. flybooks
  5. flyboy
  6. flyboys
  7. flybridge
  8. flybridges
  9. flybrush
  10. flybrushes
  11. flyby

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