flyer

plural flyers · alternative flier

1. That which flies, as a bird or insect.
2. A machine that flies.
3. datedAn airplane pilot.

   Synonyms: aviator, aviatrix

4. A person who travels by airplane.
5. A leaflet, often for advertising.

   Synonyms: circular, leaflet

6. The part of a spinning machine that twists the thread as it takes it to and winds it on the bobbin
7. architectureAn arch that connects a flying buttress into the structure it supports.
8. synchronized swimmingacrobaticsA person who is lifted and/or thrown by another person or persons.
9. engineeringA stray shot away from the group on a target.
10. A standard rectangular step of a staircase (as opposed to a winder).
11. A female kangaroo; a roo; a doe; a jill.
12. A leap or jump.
13. A risky investment or other venture.

    It was a great day for the pair of Fosters. They were speechless for joy. Also speechless for another reason: after much watching of the market, Aleck had lately, with fear and trembling, made her first flyer on a “margin,” using the remaining twenty thousand of the bequest in this risk.

    1903, Mark Twain, The $30,000 Bequest

14. informalA fast-moving person or thing.

    The new Waterloo–Exeter times of the S.R. flyer are 2hr 58min down and 1min more up, in less than 3hr, that is to say, in both directions, with the help of four runs timed at over a mile a minute.

    1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593

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    An amusing incident on the first of these journeys was the checking by signal of the flyer about 3 miles out of Paris, with the result that it was overhauled by the 6.25 p.m. semi-fast from Paris to Montargis, to the unconcealed delight of passengers in the latter.

    1952 December, 'Mercury', “Modern French Locomotive Performance”, in Railway Magazine, pages 808-809

15. hobbiesA false start.
16. entertainmentSynonym of flying cymbal.

    Synonyms: flying cymbal

present singular third person flyers · participle present flyering · participle past flyered · past flyered · alternative flier

1. intransitiveTo distribute flyers (leaflets).

   Neil McKinnon, the Fringe's head of external affairs, asks: Are you flyering in the right place at the right time? How are you flyering? Good flyering is about more than standing there handing out flyers to as many people as you can.

   2012, Mark Fisher, quoting Neil McKinnon, The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 156

2. transitiveTo distribute flyers in (a location) or to (recipients).

alternative flier

1. comparativecomparative form of fly: more fly