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
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
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
They’ve endured agonies he’ll never understand — and a barfly like him can’t deliver a cheers that will set things right.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 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
Remember the moment late in this film when someone presents the barflies with a cake bearing the message “This Place Sucked Anyway,” then everyone heads outside to the parking lot with sparklers?
From Slate ● Dec. 30, 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
Graham has always had the instincts to play to an audience, whether barflies or voters.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2018
And when the barflies called his talk treasonable, they hadn't been fooling.
From Ten From Infinity by Paul W. Fairman
