Definitions

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  • noun An ostentatious, self-confident person, especially a black one who is a pusher of drugs.
  • noun A fly (insect) with remarkable properties, such as resistance to insecticide.

Etymologies

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From the character in the blaxploitation film Super Fly (1972).

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super- +‎ fly

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Examples

  • Instead, he's devoting ever more of his time to the kind of superfly TNT rhetoric that made him famous worldwide, but that only the kool-aid brigade really goes for back home.

    Francisco Toro: Why Chavez Wants To Be President for Life 2009

  • Pop's, Nana's and Enoteca Vin) and a "superfly" GPS system that enables devotees to track its every move online at twitter. com / onlyburger.

    Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories 2009

  • Earlier this year, I made a deal with crafty Kris of web-goddess fame: in exchange for designing a spiffy new weblog banner for her, she got to use her superfly knitting skillz to make me a striped multicolored scarf.

    2009 November : Scrubbles.net 2009

  • My Grandson Alex is a superfly weight and recoil sensitive because of it and loves my 25-06.

    anyone own a 25-06? 2009

  • TSO is going back to doing the superfly dance in his Superman jammies with the plastic footies ….

    Media Coverage October 2009 2010

  • My Grandson Alex is a superfly weight and recoil sensitive because of it and loves my 25-06.

    anyone own a 25-06? 2009

  • Earlier this year, I made a deal with crafty Kris of web-goddess fame: in exchange for designing a spiffy new weblog banner for her, she got to use her superfly knitting skillz to make me a striped multicolored scarf.

    Scarf It Up : Scrubbles.net 2009

  • But once a pregnancy has started, the child needs to be protected, and the right to life is assuredly more important than any idea of “autonomy” - be it political, social or sexual. superfly Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Show Me the Votes 2009

  • Three out of four lanes in La Septima (7th Ave) are closed and today are filled with elderly strollers in superfly shades carrying massive radios listening to tango, children scrambling round on toy bikes, punks on skates, stern-faced Lycra warriors on $5,000 Treks, moody goth skateboarders and, fabulously, one man and his pitbull in matching leather harnesses, panting in unison.

    Bogotá's Ciclovia could teach Boris Johnson how to run a car-free capital 2010

  • I especially like their gas masks and their superfly backpacks.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Sketch a Day: 02-01-2008 2008

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