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Definition of Flyboy
1. a pilot in an air force [n -BOYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flyboy
Literary usage of Flyboy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vocational Education Survey of Richmond, Va. August, 1915 by Richmond (Va.). School Board (1916)
"flyboy.—f he flyboy catches the printed sheets as they come through the press,
keeps them in ... If the work ia small and the flyboy can manage the sheets, ..."
2. Vocational Education Survey of Richmond, Va. August, 1915 by Richmond (Va.). School Board (1916)
"If the work is small and the flyboy can manage the sheets, ... The flyboy helps
to clean the machine and to do at all times whatever the printer may require ..."
3. In the Shade of an Acacia Tree: Memoirs of a Health Officer in Africa, 1945-1959by Frank L. Lambrecht by Frank L. Lambrecht (1991)
"... on the banks of the mysterious Malagarasi River: the lovely coolness of the
early mornings as I strolled with the flyboy team to check the tsetse traps; ..."
4. The Printing Trades by Frank Leslie Shaw, Cleveland Foundation Survey Committee (1916)
"In cylinder presswork there is no fixed line of promotion. A boy usually begins
as a flyboy, and after learning ..."
5. Publication by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), Cleveland Foundation Survey Committee, Emergency Conservation Committee (U.S.) (1916)
"In cylinder presswork there is no fixed line of promotion. A boy usually begins
as a flyboy, and after learning ..."
6. Strategic Air Warfare: An Interview with Generals Curtis E. LeMay, Leon W by Curtis E. LeMay, Richard H. Kohn, Joseph P. Harahan (1988)
"Here was a crazy flyboy coming in saying the war could be ended without invasion.
We didn't make much of an imprint. So we went back to the Marianas and did ..."
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