| 单词 | fly boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfly boy fly boy n. U.S. slang a member of the Air Force, esp. a pilot. ΚΠ 1946 Amer. Speech 21 248 Airforce flying personnel are sometimes labelled bird-men or flyboys. 1948 Life 1 Nov. 87/2 The generals are no full-throttle ‘fly-boys’. 1954 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (ed. 2) §756/2 Cloud hopper, eagle, eagle chaser, fly-boy, manbird, sky chauffeur. fly boy fly boy n. originally and chiefly U.S. (a) a sharp or shrewd young man; (b) (esp. in Black English) a stylish or sophisticated young man. ΚΠ 1888 in Random House Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1994) I. 791/1 Jim Blake lived in the country, and though a pretty fly boy among the rustics was not up in the ways of the outside world. 1896 G. Ade Artie vi. 57 Here comes a whole crowd o' people—a lot o' swell girls and their fly boys. The car was nearly full. 1950 A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll 182 Here were the fly boys of the burgeoning entertainment industry. 1980 ‘L. Cody’ Dupe ii. 13 Bit of a fly-boy, anyway, I shouldn't wonder. 1993 Independent 18 Feb. 22/6 The rapper Butterfly..tries to push the hip vernacular to implosion-point, unleashing a stream of all-purpose, timeless hepcat babble that would be just as easily understood by Fifties beats as Nineties fly-boys. < as lemmas |
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