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fruit flies

fruit flies is the plural of fruit fly.

Meaning of fruit fly

Noun

fruit fly (plural fruit flies)

  1. Any insect of the Tephritidae family, whose larvae damage plant tissue.
  2. Any insect of the Drosophilidae family, whose larvae feed on ripening fruit, especially the species Drosophila melanogaster that is used in genetic research.
  3. (slang) A woman who enjoys the company of gay men.
    • Dan Valentine works as a bartender in a pissy and discreet Boston Village gay bar called "Bonaparte's". Clarisse is a chi-chi phruit phly who occasionally puts in time pushing real estate in fash Back Bay and the South End.1980 December 13, Mitzel, “Dale Barbre's Murder Transformed”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 12
    Synonyms:
    fag hag
  4. (slang, uncommon) A heterosexual man who enjoys the company of gay men, or queer people in general.

Questions about fruit flies

What is fruit flies the plural of?
Fruit flies is the plural of fruit fly.

Words near fruit flies in the dictionary

  1. fruit doves
  2. fruit drop
  3. fruit drops
  4. fruit fall
  5. fruit falls
  6. fruit flies
  7. fruit fly
  8. fruit hat
  9. fruit hats
  10. fruit ice
  11. fruit ices

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