barfly
noun
a person who frequents barrooms.
barflies
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pluralof barfly.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
Alternately rousing and yearning, this is a gorgeous hymn to barflies, precious memories and the joys of being a ghost, told with a dash of Edgar Allan Poe and Thelonious Monk.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 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
