Meanings
nounmeat fly (plural meat flies)
plural meat flies
- blowfly
The incredibly long body as well as the extended wings were of a gleaming purplish-gray colour: I can only liken it to that of a meat fly or common "bluebottle".
1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page i. 16
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meat fly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/meat%20fly
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