| 释义 |
ˈsuperfly, a. and n. U.S. slang.
[super- 9 a: cf. fly a. 1.]
A. adj.
a. Very good, excellent, the best (esp. in the context of drugs).
b. spec. Typical of the film character Super Fly (see quot. 19751). Also with capital initial.
1971R. Woodley in Esquire Apr. 79/1 ‘That,’ he said in crisp, sure tones, ‘is top-shelf coke. Super-fly.’ 1971― in New York 30 Aug. 29/1 They figure if the cat O.D.'d, it must have been some superfly dope. 1974Florida FL Reporter XIII. 50/2 A kind of Swahili-speaking Superfly image. 1975Wentworth & Flexner's Dict. Amer. Slang Suppl. 747/2 Superfly,..very wonderful, desirable, or attractive... Became popular after the 1972 motion picture Super Fly, about a cocaine dealer in Harlem. 1975Los Angeles Times 14 July ii. 5/3 Last year a ninth-grader impressed the entire student body on several occasions by wearing flashy ‘super fly’ suits. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 8 May 16/2 Ban outlandish and distracting clothes... No Superfly suits, no platform shoes. 1977E. Leonard Unknown Man No. 89 vii. 67 The beauty parlor... Get his superfly hair fixed up.
B. n. [From the title of the film: see sense b of the adj. above.] One who sells illegal drugs, a ‘pusher’.
1973Black Panther 7 July 7/3 The high level dope pushers, the ‘Super Flys’, were the target. 1974Black World Sept. 25/2 Long Black Song tells us, here in the 1970's, that the days of darky entertainers, superflies, sweetbacks, and Melindas, if not over, are numbered. |