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
Jayme Hoskins has turned into a baseball barfly and let the free beers fly during recent Phillies’ postseason games.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
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
But the movie doesn’t even bother to separate one of Moehringer’s barflies from another.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
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
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
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
