barfly

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

In a world that’s now rammed with loneliness, it’s easy to watch Norm and think, “I wish I had what that barfly had.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2025

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

Jayme Hoskins has turned into a baseball barfly and let the free beers fly during recent Phillies’ postseason games.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 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 H. Beam Piper

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

On residential side streets, the usual late night sounds — the shouts of overserved barflies, the squabbles over precious parking spots — have vanished.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2020

They always exerted a gravitational pull on the clotheslines and barflies and flyswatters and carpenters and Donalds and Lydias and other earthly things that populated the extended John Prine universe.

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 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 Robert Silverberg