barflies
- plural of barfly.
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
She then set the barflies at the saloon across the street to flight in a similar fashion.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2021
Even the barflies were somehow uniquely Cambridge; Hoopy, for example, carried crossword puzzles in his inside pocket, and gave his profession as “solipsist.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 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 Silverberg, Robert
