# flyer

Pronunciation: US say "FLY-ur" /ˈflaɪə(ɹ)/; UK

## Noun

1. A single printed leaflet, often used to advertise an event, product, or service.
   - Simple: A printed sheet that advertises an event, sale, or product.
   - _Volunteers stapled flyers to every lamppost before the festival._
   - _The store printed a colorful flyer announcing its weekend sale._
2. A person who travels by airplane, especially as a passenger.
   - Simple: A person who travels somewhere by airplane.
   - _As a nervous flyer, she always books an aisle seat._
   - _Business flyers crowded the early-morning departure lounge._
3. A machine that flies, such as an aircraft.
   - Simple: A machine built to travel through the air.
   - _The museum displays an early flyer from the dawn of aviation._
   - _Engineers tested the experimental flyer over the desert._
4. A creature that flies, such as a bird or an insect.
   - Simple: Any creature that can fly, such as a bird or insect.
   - _The albatross is a remarkably efficient flyer, gliding for hours without flapping._
   - _Few flyers can match the dragonfly's agility in midair._
5. A person or thing that moves at high speed. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: A person or thing that moves very fast.
   - _Their winger is a flyer who leaves defenders standing._
   - _The colt turned out to be a flyer on the racetrack._
6. A risky investment or other venture, especially one taken as a gamble.
   - Simple: A risky investment, bet, or other venture.
   - _She took a flyer on the startup, knowing it might fail completely._
   - _The fund avoided flyers and stuck to safe, proven stocks._
9. A leap or a jump.
   - Simple: A jump or leap from one place to another.
   - _With a running flyer, she cleared the wide ditch easily._
   - _The dog's flyer over the gate surprised everyone._
10. The team member who is raised, tossed, or held aloft by one or more others during a stunt or routine.
   - Simple: In cheerleading or acrobatics, the person who is lifted or thrown into the air by teammates.
   - _The flyer held a steady pose while the bases supported her feet._
   - _During the toss, the flyer tucked into a flip before being caught._
12. A straight, rectangular stair step of uniform width, unlike a tapered winder that turns the staircase around a corner.
   - Simple: A normal straight stair step that has the same width all the way across.
   - _A run of flyers leads straight up before the winders turn the corner._
   - _The staircase used a single flyer between two sets of winders._
13. An arch that ties a flying buttress to the structure it braces, carrying the outward thrust across open space.
   - Simple: In old churches, the arch that links a support called a flying buttress to the wall it holds up.
   - _The flyer transmits the lateral thrust of the vault to the outer pier._
   - _Several flyers span the gap between the nave wall and the buttress towers._
14. A stray shot that falls well away from the main cluster of hits on a target.
   - Simple: A shot that misses the main group and lands far away on the target.
   - _A flyer high and to the right pulled his score down despite a tight cluster._
   - _Coaches taught the recruits to note any flyer and check their breathing._
15. The part of a spinning machine that twists the thread and guides it onto the bobbin as the bobbin winds.
   - Simple: The spinning part of a machine that twists thread and winds it onto a spool.
   - _As the wheel turned, the flyer twisted the fibers into a tight yarn._
   - _A worn flyer caused uneven twist along the finished thread._
16. A premature start in a race, made before the official starting signal is given.
   - Simple: When a racer starts to move before the signal, breaking the rules of the start.
   - _Her flyer off the blocks drew an immediate recall from the starter._
   - _Officials disqualified him after a second flyer at the start._
17. A female kangaroo, also called a doe, jill, or roo.
   - Simple: A female kangaroo.
   - _The flyer carried a joey in her pouch as she bounded away from the road._
   - _Rangers asked hunters to spare any flyer traveling with young._
18. The open, ringing hi-hat pattern played on each beat, a hallmark of disco drumming; also known as the flying cymbal.
   - Simple: A steady, open hi-hat sound used a lot in disco drumming.
   - _The track's groove leaned on a relentless flyer over the four-on-the-floor kick._
   - _He opened the hi-hat into a flyer to lift the energy of the chorus._

## Verb

7. To hand out leaflets, especially for advertising or promotion.
   - Simple: To hand out leaflets to people, often to advertise something.
   - _Activists flyer regularly to raise awareness about the issue._
   - _The volunteers flyered tirelessly throughout the campaign._
8. To cover a location with leaflets, or to give leaflets to a group of recipients.
   - Simple: To hand out leaflets across a place or to a group of people.
   - _Promoters flyered the entire downtown ahead of the concert._
   - _The team will flyer all the parked cars in the lot._

## Adjective

19. Comparative form of fly: more fly. *(slang)* — comparative form of fly: more fly
   - Simple: Comparative form of fly: more fly. Use it to say something is cooler or more stylish than something else.
   - _The remix sounds flyer than the original cut._
   - _She looked flyer than ever when she walked into the party._

## Noun

11. The pilot of an airplane; a person who operates an aircraft. *(dated)*
   - Simple: A person who flies an airplane as the pilot.
   - _The veteran flyer had logged thousands of hours in open-cockpit planes._
   - _Early flyers braved unreliable engines and primitive instruments._

## Origin

**Meanings 1–18** — Formed from "fly" plus the agent-noun suffix "-er". In the sense of a female kangaroo, the name comes from the high speed at which they move.
**Meaning 19** — Formed from "fly" plus "-er", the comparative suffix.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/flyer (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).