flyboy
noun
flyboy is a noun meaning “An aircraft pilot, especially of a military combat aircraft” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-Y-B-O-Y, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flyboy is flyboys.
What does flyboy mean?
noun
- 1
slangAn aircraft pilot, especially of a military combat aircraft.
- 2
slangA man employed to clear the printed copies from the printing press.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flyboy?
- Australia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-flyboy.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of flyboy
- flyboys plural
- fly-boy
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flyboy?
Flyboy appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Flyboy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense aircraft pilot, especially of a military combat aircraft:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | chevalier du ciel |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does flyboy come from?
From fly + boy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).