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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Flynn

surname, from Irish flann "red."

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Flynn

Flynn is an Irish surname, an anglicised form of the Irish Ó Floinn, meaning "descendant of Flann" (a byname meaning "reddish (complexion)" or "ruddy"). The name rose independently in several parts of Ireland.

Flynn (disambiguation)

Flynn is a surname of Irish origin. It may also refer to:

Entertainment

  • Flynn (film), a 1997 Australian film about Errol Flynn
  • Flynn Adam Atkins (also known as FLYNN), rapper and member of hip hop group LA Symphony
  • An NPC character in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
  • Bridget Flynn, a fictional comic book superheroine who goes by the name Supervision.

Places

  • Flynn, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb in the Canberra district of Belconnen
  • The Division of Flynn, an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Queensland
  • Flynn, a rural locality near Rosedale, Australia
  • Flynn Township, Michigan, USA
  • Flynn, Texas, USA

Other

  • Flynn's Taxonomy, a system for classifying computer architectures
  • The Flynn Effect, the gradual rise in IQ test scores
Flynn (film)

Flynn is an Australian film about the early life of Errol Flynn, focusing on his time in New Guinea starring Guy Pearce in the title role.

Usage examples of "flynn".

He made it clear to Toby and Flynn and anyone who would listen that he regarded reporters and their cameramen as necessary vermin, who would do well to follow his own instructions to the last detail if they knew what was good for them.

Though Flynn claimed to have spotted a few like-minded souls among the junior officers.

Toby and Flynn exchanged a puzzled glance and hurried after him, with Ffolkes dithering along in the rear, as always.

He could sense Flynn not far behind him, quietly getting it all on film.

Shreck and his cameraman Flynn, wrapped in heavy-duty furs, lumbered out into the cold, swore briefly, and began filming.

Toby and Flynn had grown used to recording sudden death in close-up on the battlefields of Technos III, but nothing there had prepared them for this.

He looked at the pathetic piles of mutilated bodies, then looked at Toby and Flynn almost desperately.

Hell had come to Mistport, and Toby Shreck and his cameraman Flynn were right there in the thick of it, keeping up a live broadcast.

Ffolkes came staggering down the deck toward Toby and Flynn, stepping gingerly over the injured and the dying.

The moment it became clear things were going seriously wrong, Lieutenant Ffolkes ordered Flynn to recall his camera and shut it down.

So Toby and Flynn fell back with the retreating forces until Ffolkes was called away to be objectionable somewhere else.

As they trudged back into the snows outside the city, and temporary safety, Toby and Flynn gave up trying to interview the exhausted troopers after the negative replies escalated from the obscene to actual death threats.

Shreck and Flynn were right there in the thick of things, getting it all on film.

Troops and rebels alike both ignored Toby and Flynn as obvious noncombatants, but flying bullets and disrupter beams and crumbling buildings made no such distinction.

Toby and Flynn, standing alone in the sea of carnage and broken bodies.