barfly
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One disappointed man with a Gallrein sticker walked out, while a lone barfly looked at a broadcast of a PGA golf tournament.
From Slate ● May 19, 2026
A daughter of Washington, D.C.’s Black bourgeoisie, Horn often attired herself in furs and white gloves, but she could outlast even the hardiest barfly as the night wore on.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
The latter, released in November 1949, was a sweet tribute to the barfly regulars at that friendly venue.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
Bobby doesn’t mind — handsome, intelligent and possessing a secret stash of dough, he appears to move above the concerns of his barfly cohort.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
And it should have been obvious to me, maybe not that he was an Executive Special, but that he was certainly no drunken barfly.
From Four-Day Planet by Piper, H. Beam
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
But the movie doesn’t even bother to separate one of Moehringer’s barflies from another.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
She then set the barflies at the saloon across the street to flight in a similar fashion.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2021
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
And when the barflies called his talk treasonable, they hadn't been fooling.
From Ten From Infinity by Fairman, Paul W.
