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
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
A trio of barflies try to track down a winning lottery ticket that was stolen from them in “Two Lottery Tickets,” which the Chicago Reader calls an “enjoyably deadpan Romanian comedy.”
From Washington Post ● May 19, 2021
They always exerted a gravitational pull on the clotheslines and barflies and flyswatters and carpenters and Donalds and Lydias and other earthly things that populated the extended John Prine universe.
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2020
And when the barflies called his talk treasonable, they hadn't been fooling.
From Ten From Infinity by Paul W. Fairman
