Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In printing, a boy who seizes printed sheets as they come from the press, and lays them in order.
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Examples
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It seems even the producers have tired of the fly-boy puns, so they opted to paysome real money to drown out the bad dialogue.
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The Palin pick already, as Noemie Emery wrote, “Wipes out the image of McCain as the crotchety elder and brings back that of the fly-boy and gambler, which is much more appealing, and the genuine person.”
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I, too, felt like it was pretty hard on GL but since Hal really was the vapid, lame GL for a period years--we get it, he's an arrogant hetero-hooch fly-boy--but overall, this was a fun, funny issue.
This Week’s All Star Batman and Robin | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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The next meme is that the Palin pick “wipes out the image of McCain as the crotchety elder and brings back that of the fly-boy and gambler, which is much more appealing, and the genuine person.”
Killing the Message 2008
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The next meme is that the Palin pick “wipes out the image of McCain as the crotchety elder and brings back that of the fly-boy and gambler, which is much more appealing, and the genuine person.”
Killing the Message 2008
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No one who saw this fly-boy swagger beneath the "Mission Accomplished" banner (on the USS Abraham Lincoln, no less) is qualified to characterize that act as one of the most loathsome, preening, hubristic degradations of the presidency in all of American history because ... well, because none of us is dead yet!
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The next meme is that the Palin pick “wipes out the image of McCain as the crotchety elder and brings back that of the fly-boy and gambler, which is much more appealing, and the genuine person.”
Killing the Message 2008
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They hate his frat-boy smirk, his phony fly-boy act, his cringe-inducing mangling of the language, his born-again sanctimony, even his Texas twang and his godforsaken, tumbleweed ranch where only someone as fence-post-dumb as W. would hole up in August.
THE NEWS BLOG 2003
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In that moment, for Dervia, Jazz was no longer the beery-leery jack-the - lad fly-boy king of clubbing cool that she knew and was beginning to rather like, he was a Greek or a Roman God, a living, breathing version of all those wonderful works of art she saw on her summer holidays in Europe.
Dead Famous Elton, Ben 2001
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Complete pilot issue And this was the equipment issued to the glamor fly-boy.
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