Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who works the ropes in the flies of a theater.
- noun One who drives a fly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The driver of a fly, or light public carriage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK Someone who drives a fly-coach.
- noun theater Someone who operates a fly system in a theatre.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Buquet, the chief flyman, is called, but he can offer no explanation.
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But before I explain what scientists led by Michael Dickinson of the California Institute of Technology (that would be the Dickinson whose e-mail is "flyman") have learned about how the fly brain calculates the location of the looming swatter, formulates an escape plan and plants its legs in an optimal position to hop out of the way (all within about 100 milliseconds of spotting the swatter), let's cut to the chase: the best way to swat a fly, Dickinson says, is
Sore Eyes 2008
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Just as the spider descends upon the flyman, the inspector hefts a large stone and crushes both creatures, killing them together and sparing us the coup de grace.
31 Screams: Al Hedison Arbogast 2008
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Although Bey Nye's makeup suggests dessication and age, there's an innocence about the flyman, a seemingly complete inability to understand why this is happening, that makes him seem like a child.
31 Screams: Al Hedison Arbogast 2008
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As most of the dead scientist's intelligence was retained within his manfly brain, there obviously isn't much left for that of the flyman... who screams pitiably as he meets his doom.
31 Screams: Al Hedison Arbogast 2008
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With the manfly dead and his wife, Patricia Owens, about to be carted off to an insane asylum for his murder, Price and police inspector Herbert Marshall make the ghastly eleventh hour discovery of a flyman caught in a spiderweb in the garden.
31 Screams: Al Hedison Arbogast 2008
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A big, bearish flyman stage right was testing out Elphaba's flying harness and hoist.
Archive 2006-05-01 Will 2006
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No flyman – I am saying because they have no intelligence as veiwers they will believe what is spoonfed to them.
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A big, bearish flyman stage right was testing out Elphaba's flying harness and hoist.
What makes "Wicked" Run--Part Deux Will 2006
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But the flyman shook his head, and looked very serious, and told me that he feared bad times were coming.
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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