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
A daughter of Washington, D.C.’s Black bourgeoisie, Horn often attired herself in furs and white gloves, but she could outlast even the hardiest barfly as the night wore on.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
The latter, released in November 1949, was a sweet tribute to the barfly regulars at that friendly venue.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
He is a natural-born talker, a barfly with no bar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2023
And it should have been obvious to me, maybe not that he was an Executive Special, but that he was certainly no drunken barfly.
From Four-Day Planet 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
She then set the barflies at the saloon across the street to flight in a similar fashion.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2021
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
He pushed his way past the man in Space Grays and shouldered past a couple of barflies as he left.
From Postmark Ganymede by Robert Silverberg
