flyboy

noun

fly·​boy ˈflī-ˌbȯi 

: a member of the air force

especially : an aircraft pilot

Examples of flyboy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Butler has the look of an actor who would be cast as a cocky flyboy in a 1940s movie, but Cleven is too smooth to give him much to play, especially after his love interest — Isabel May’s Marge — is introduced in the premiere and then never seen again. —Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

There’s also Lewis Pullman, the Top Gun: Maverick supporting flyboy that shows up here as Lieutenant Thomas Keefer, Maryk’s best friend and the possible real inciter of rebellion here. —David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2023

Or that those are all hallucinatory images coming from the last synaptic firings of a past-his-prime flyboy getting smeared across the horizon alongside the pieces of his jet? —Vulture, 29 May 2022

This Korean War flyboy drama was largely passed over at TIFF, but an Audience Award at the Middleburg Film Festival put it back on pundits’ radars. —Vulture, 18 Nov. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1937, in the meaning defined above