barfly
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One disappointed man with a Gallrein sticker walked out, while a lone barfly looked at a broadcast of a PGA golf tournament.
From Slate ● May 19, 2026
The latter, released in November 1949, was a sweet tribute to the barfly regulars at that friendly venue.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
They’ve endured agonies he’ll never understand — and a barfly like him can’t deliver a cheers that will set things right.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
And by the end of the fourth "She-Hulk" episode, "Is This Not Real Magic?" the mononymous sorcerer has an adorable barfly handle: "Wongers."
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2022
He had begun to dress more neatly and speak more grammatically; to look and act more like a spaceman and less like a barfly.
From Space Viking by H. Beam Piper
In Crescent City, a remote Northern California harbor town where tsunamis are a way of life, the Tuesday evening barflies gathered at Port O’Pints Brewing Co. were decidedly blasé about the possibility of impending disaster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2025
When will anybody admit that barflies spending the holidays glued to a dive’s counter aren’t heartwarming?
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2022
Remember the moment late in this film when someone presents the barflies with a cake bearing the message “This Place Sucked Anyway,” then everyone heads outside to the parking lot with sparklers?
From Slate ● Dec. 30, 2020
On residential side streets, the usual late night sounds — the shouts of overserved barflies, the squabbles over precious parking spots — have vanished.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2020
And when the barflies called his talk treasonable, they hadn't been fooling.
From Ten From Infinity by Paul W. Fairman
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