flyer

USFLY-ur/ˈflaɪə(ɹ)/

19 meanings of flyer

1
nouncountable
A printed sheet that advertises an event, sale, or product.
Like a small poster you can hold in your hand.
We handed out a flyer for the school concert.
She found a flyer about the new pizza place in her mailbox.
Similarleaflet, circular
2
nouncountable
A person who travels somewhere by airplane.
Every flyer must show a boarding pass at the gate.
Frequent flyers often earn free trips.
Similarpassenger, traveler
3
nouncountable
A machine built to travel through the air.
The brothers built a wooden flyer that lifted off the sand.
Early flyers were fragile and hard to control.
Similaraircraft, airplane, craft
4
nouncountable
Any creature that can fly, such as a bird or insect.
The bat is a strong flyer that hunts at night.
Many flyers head south before winter.
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5
nouncolloquialcountable
A person or thing that moves very fast.
Like a runner who zooms past everyone else.
That little dog is a real flyer in the park.
The new sprinter is a flyer off the starting blocks.
Similarspeedster
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6
nouncountable
A risky investment, bet, or other venture.
He took a flyer on a small tech company and lost his savings.
Buying that old house was a flyer, but it paid off.
Similargamble, punt, risk, bet, speculation
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7
verbintransitive
To hand out leaflets to people, often to advertise something.
We flyer outside the stadium before every home game.
They flyered all weekend to spread the word.
Similarleaflet
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8
verbtransitive
To hand out leaflets across a place or to a group of people.
The campaign flyered the whole neighborhood before the vote.
Students flyer every dorm during election week.
Similarleaflet
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9
nouncountable
A jump or leap from one place to another.
He took a flyer over the low fence and kept running.
The kids practiced flyers off the diving board all summer.
Similarleap, jump, bound, vault
10
nouncountable
In cheerleading or acrobatics, the person who is lifted or thrown into the air by teammates.
Like the person standing on top of a human pyramid.
The flyer balanced on her teammates' hands during the routine.
Two strong bases lifted the flyer high above the mat.
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11
noundatedcountable
A person who flies an airplane as the pilot.
The young flyer landed his biplane safely in the field.
Wartime flyers trained for months before their first mission.
Similaraviator, aviatrix
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12
nouncountable
A normal straight stair step that has the same width all the way across.
Like one flat, even stair in a plain straight staircase.
Each flyer in the staircase had the same width.
The builder measured every flyer carefully before fitting it.
Oppositewinder
13
nouncountable
In old churches, the arch that links a support called a flying buttress to the wall it holds up.
Like a bridge that carries weight from the wall out to a support post.
The cathedral's flyer carried the roof's weight out to the buttress.
Workers repaired a cracked flyer on the old church.
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14
nouncountable
A shot that misses the main group and lands far away on the target.
Like one dart that lands far from all the rest on a dartboard.
One flyer ruined an otherwise tight group on the target.
The shooter ignored a single flyer and kept firing.
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15
nouncountable
The spinning part of a machine that twists thread and winds it onto a spool.
Like a spinning top that twists string around itself as it turns.
The flyer spun quickly, twisting the thread onto the spool.
She oiled the flyer before starting the spinning wheel.
16
nouncountable
When a racer starts to move before the signal, breaking the rules of the start.
Like starting to run before someone says go.
The runner's flyer forced the judges to restart the race.
A flyer at the line cost the team the heat.
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17
nouncountable
A female kangaroo.
Like a mother deer moving with her fawn.
The flyer hopped across the field with her joey.
A flyer and her young rested in the shade at midday.
Similardoe, jill
Oppositeboomer, buck, jack
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18
nouncountable
A steady, open hi-hat sound used a lot in disco drumming.
Like the steady hiss of cymbals you hear running through disco songs.
The drummer kept the flyer going through the whole chorus.
That dance track rides on a bright, ringing flyer.
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19
adjectiveslang
Comparative form of fly: more fly. Use it to say something is cooler or more stylish than something else.
These shoes are flyer than my old pair.
His ride is flyer than anyone else's at school.
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Origins

Meanings 1–18

From the word "fly" plus "-er", which means someone or something that does an action.

Meaning 19

From "fly" plus "-er", the ending that makes a comparative.