Get to know Barfly better with 2 real example sentences, the meaning.
Barfly meaning
- A person who spends much time in a bar or similar drinking establishment
- A promiscuous person, especially a woman, who frequents bars hoping to find sexual partners
Using Barfly
- The main meaning on this page is: A person who spends much time in a bar or similar drinking establishment | A promiscuous person, especially a woman, who frequents bars hoping to find sexual partners
Context around Barfly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Barfly
- In this selection, "barfly" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 31 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, word, podcast and reappears stand out and add context to how "barfly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include of the barfly podcast on and same word barfly reappears as. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "barfly" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with barfly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Seemingly innocuous, that same word—barfly—reappears as the title of Lista’s disturbing new volume of poetry. (18 words)
Jeff Burkhart is the author of “Twenty Years Behind Bars: The Spirited Adventures of a Real Bartender, Vol. I and II,” the host of the Barfly Podcast on iTunes (as seen in the NY Times) and an award-winning bartender at a local restaurant. (44 words)
Jeff Burkhart is the author of “Twenty Years Behind Bars: The Spirited Adventures of a Real Bartender, Vol. I and II,” the host of the Barfly Podcast on iTunes (as seen in the NY Times) and an award-winning bartender at a local restaurant. (44 words)
Seemingly innocuous, that same word—barfly—reappears as the title of Lista’s disturbing new volume of poetry. (18 words)
Example sentences (2)
Jeff Burkhart is the author of “Twenty Years Behind Bars: The Spirited Adventures of a Real Bartender, Vol. I and II,” the host of the Barfly Podcast on iTunes (as seen in the NY Times) and an award-winning bartender at a local restaurant.
Seemingly innocuous, that same word—barfly—reappears as the title of Lista’s disturbing new volume of poetry.