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Recent Examples of barfly
Hawke renders Hart as the most erudite barfly to buzz around mid-century Manhattan.
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Kyle McGovern, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Turns out Cusack is still a regular barfly at Beacon Hill joints like Carrie Nation’s and the 21st Amendment (which was also Kujo’s favorite spot back in the day).
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 26 July 2025
Norm was America’s favorite barfly, and as the theme song said, everybody knew his name.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 23 May 2025
Wendt starred as Norm on every episode of the show’s 11 seasons; Norm is a barfly of the highest manner, both congenial and running up an extremely high tab.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 20 May 2025
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Kyle McGovern, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Turns out Cusack is still a regular barfly at Beacon Hill joints like Carrie Nation’s and the 21st Amendment (which was also Kujo’s favorite spot back in the day).
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 26 July 2025
Norm was America’s favorite barfly, and as the theme song said, everybody knew his name.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 23 May 2025
Wendt starred as Norm on every episode of the show’s 11 seasons; Norm is a barfly of the highest manner, both congenial and running up an extremely high tab.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for barfly
Noun
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That’s an alcoholic who managed to quit drinking, but never dealt with the issues that drove him to drink in the first place.—
Jeanne Phillips,
Mercury News,
8 June 2026
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After the war, his goalscoring statistics were deleted and his achievements were discredited, with the Polish press labelling him as mentally unstable and an alcoholic.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
Noun
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The 48-year-old musician repeated his anti-Jewish rhetoric in a 2025 post insisting his words aren’t the ramblings of a drunkard.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
6 May 2026
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The main problem with that analogy, as Hemani’s lawyer, Erin Murphy, pointed out, is that 18th-century laws didn’t allow punishment of habitual drinkers — only habitual drunkards.—
Noah Feldman,
Twin Cities,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In Manchester's Northern Quarter, diners slurp oysters to a late-night DJ soundtrack; in Glasgow, Basque cooking is taking center stage; in Leeds, a Victorian boozer is the best place to eat right now.—
CNT Editors,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Mar. 2026
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Such was the verdict that was handed down upon Anthony by his father, Dick, who was a boozer and a weeper as well as a baker.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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With Brady Tkachuk lurking at the top of the crease, Jake Sanderson’s wrist sot was tipped by Norris past Swayman at 5:41.—
Stephen Conroy,
Hartford Courant,
18 Jan. 2025
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First, undermining confidence in or even delaying updates to Windows 11 PCs, and perhaps even more acutely, giving Windows 10 users more reasons sot keep holding out.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes,
29 Dec. 2024
Noun
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For $20, interested coffee-drinkers can receive $5 vouchers to 11 coffee shops around the region.—
Anne Ewbank,
Sacbee.com,
15 June 2026
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Yaupon may be unfamiliar to many tea drinkers, but this local, sustainable source of caffeine dates back at least 1,000 years.—
Randi Gollin,
Martha Stewart,
12 June 2026
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“Barfly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barfly. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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