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Definition of Flyboys
1. flyboy [n] - See also: flyboy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flyboys
Literary usage of Flyboys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publication by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), Cleveland Foundation Survey Committee, Emergency Conservation Committee (U.S.) (1916)
"Five occupations—those of cutters, floor- men, flyboys, plate printers, and web
pressmen—give employment to fewer than 40 men each. ..."
2. In the Shade of an Acacia Tree: Memoirs of a Health Officer in Africa, 1945-1959 by Frank L. Lambrecht (1991)
"I sent the two flyboys back to camp with the dead animal and with most of my gear
while I continued to explore with the Hutu hunter. ..."
3. The Printing Trades by Frank Leslie Shaw, Cleveland Foundation Survey Committee (1916)
"Only in the largest shops do the foremen devote all their time to supervision.
Floor- men are assistant pressmen. Beginners, called flyboys, are employed on ..."
4. Vocational Civics: A Study of Occupations as a Background for the by Frederic Mayor Giles, Imogene Kean Giles (1919)
"... cutters, and flyboys do whatever they are called on to do and get about $1.50
a day. The foremen in these departments get about $4.75 a day. ..."
5. Larue's Maneuvers by James Isaiah Gabbe (2007)
"... though I slipped once and was bawled out across a field of suckling plants
for wearing my cap jaunty-angled like WW II flyboys. When Suma wasn't around, ..."
6. Vocational Education Survey of Richmond, Va. August, 1915 by Richmond (Va.). School Board (1916)
"... printers (feeders and flyboys), and cutters (collators, numberers, folders,
perforators, bookmakers, and padders). Engraver and Lithographer. Processes. ..."
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