bar fly

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   a drinker who frequents bars

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Questions about bar fly

What does bar fly mean?

bar fly means "a drinker who frequents bars".

Is bar fly a common word?

bar fly is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.