Crossword clues for barfly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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alt. (context slang English) a person who spends much time in a bar or similar drinking establishment n. (context slang English) a person who spends much time in a bar or similar drinking establishment
Wikipedia
Barfly may refer to:
- Barfly (album), 1995 album by the band Buck-O-Nine
- Barfly (club), a music venue in Camden Town, London, UK
- Barfly (film), 1987 American film starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway
- " Baen's Barfly", one who browses the internet at publisher Baen Books' author and fan website and forum known as "Baen's Bar"
- Barfly, small bar in Montreal, on Saint Laurent Boulevard
- Barfly (comic), comic strip featured in the Irish music magazine, Hot Press
- Barfly Assembler Development System, software package for the Commodore Amiga
Barfly is a 1987 American comedy drama film directed by Barbet Schroeder and starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway. The film is a semi-autobiography of poet/author Charles Bukowski during the time he spent drinking heavily in Los Angeles. The screenplay by Bukowski was commissioned by the French film director Schroeder, and it was published (with illustrations by the author) in 1984, when film production was still pending.
The Kino Flo light, now a ubiquitous tool in the film industry, was specially created by Robby Müller's electrical crew for a scene in this film, which would have been difficult to light using the conventional lampheads available at the time.
The film was "presented by" Francis Ford Coppola, and features a silent cameo appearance by Bukowski himself. It was entered into the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
Barfly is the second album from Buck-O-Nine, originally released in 1995 on Taang! Records. The album contains several cover songs that influenced the band's individual members. The cover songs were narrowed down from a list of seven possible cover songs the band had rehearsed and performed live, having originally been picked round-robin style. The album is fleshed out with original songs written after the release of Songs in the Key of Bree. Barfly was released within a relatively short time after Songs in the Key of Bree, in part because the band was anxious to have a release available that would see wider distribution than the first album was gaining.
Usage examples of "barfly".
I kept at it until midnight, concentrating on the bars around 6th and Hill, talking up barflies, buying them drinks, racking up booze rebop and a couple of tips on abortion mills that almost sounded legit.
Behind the half-busy bar a man with high collar, string tie, and arm garters drew schooners of beer from a tap, and at tables of no significant location sat men and women Francis recognized: whores, bums, barflies.
Buzz of Barflies can be found around almost any collection of good books.
Anyone just back from a cruise with Jason, and bringing back the Fleece, will have the local barflies standing in line to buy him drinks and hear his stories.
We, and I consider myself a Barfly of long and serious standing, refer to ourselves as the Barflies.
I was a Barfly before it was accepted for publication and the rest of the gang got out there and promoted it without even being asked.
His mind shied away from a sudden vision of Inge, the German barfly who had put him down for the count in Frankfurt that night.
He claims she ran off with some barfly and was never heard from again.
I made a joke to her, that my Dad was an alcoholic barfly, and that growing up I ate garnishes as meals almost every night-but then the waitress got all weird, and Karla reminded me that people often move to Las Vegas to forget things, and she stopped coming to our table, and Dad, sitting two seats over, was embarrassed because he's not used to this kind of joke.
The people I talked to were mostly barflies, daytime juicers eager to suck up to authority or gab with someone other than the usual boon acquaintances they found in gin mills.
Kinsey was mopping up the last of the water as the early evening barflies began to drift in.
The wisdom of the ages shredded at a stroke into the pipe-cooked musings of a bunch of canal-dive barflies.
Stonebender's little boy Jacob now subsumes not only an alien, two time travelers, the greatert genius of his age, several dozen barflies, a talking dog, and a self-generated Turing-class artificial intelligence .