Meanings
nounflyboy (plural flyboys)
plural flyboys · alternative fly-boy
- slangaeronauticsAn aircraft pilot, especially of a military combat aircraft.
Boom! The flyboys are gonna love us for that!
2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Storm1 more example
Big Al was back in town, and Cooper, the happy-go-lucky flyboy who was one of the Original Seven, was squashed.
1999 March 28, Eugene Cernan, Don Davis, The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space, 1st edition, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 227 - historicalslangmediaA man employed to clear the printed copies from the printing press.
Origin
Translations
French chevalier du ciel
- chevalier du cielaircraft pilot, especially of a military combat aircraft
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APA
flyboy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flyboy
MLA
“flyboy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flyboy. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flyboy,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flyboy.
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