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Recent Examples of barfly
Norm was America’s favorite barfly, and as the theme song said, everybody knew his name.
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Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 23 May 2025
Wendt played the lovable everyman and beer-guzzling barfly Norm Peterson across all 11 seasons of the NBC sitcom, from 1982-1993.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 21 May 2025
Everyone files out except for Sam’s favorite barfly, Norm Peterson — played by George Wendt, who died today at 76 — who says that the meaning of life is love.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 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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Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 23 May 2025
Wendt played the lovable everyman and beer-guzzling barfly Norm Peterson across all 11 seasons of the NBC sitcom, from 1982-1993.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 21 May 2025
Everyone files out except for Sam’s favorite barfly, Norm Peterson — played by George Wendt, who died today at 76 — who says that the meaning of life is love.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 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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Erdoğan’s speeches are full of practical advice about how to destroy the left, such as calling progressives lazy, impractical alcoholics funded by globalist lobbies and contrasting the efficiency of an imperial president with the messiness of parliamentary policymaking.—
Kaya Genç,
The Dial,
3 Feb. 2026
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The story of who Brooke Shields is — the Lolita of the ‘80s, the daughter of an alcoholic, a former Ivy Leaguer, a survivor of postpartum depression — is laid out clearly by Shields in her own words, with help from her celebrity friends and loved ones.—
Ilana Gordon,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Feb. 2026
Noun
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These laws also applied to habitual drunkards, the mentally ill and others determined to be dangerous to the public.—
Morgan Marietta,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2026
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In the 1880s, a New York heiress with an active and unorthodox social life was declared a habitual drunkard, placed under a legal guardianship, and later confined to an asylum.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Oct. 2025
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One of American drama's most intriguing case studies, Hickey is the hardware salesman who returns to his old tawdry haunt not on one of his periodic benders but on a mission to reform the resident inebriates of their belief in a better tomorrow.—
Charles McNulty,
latimes.com,
10 May 2018
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The group proposed extending the winter shelter through May, boosting treatment for serial inebriates and reporting all homeless incidents and issues to a single coordinator.—
Jeff McDonald,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
1 Oct. 2017
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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
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Then Gilmore flamed out, lost everything, and became a dedicated boozer, making flasks out of everything from cucumbers to cuckoo clocks.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
25 July 2025
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Ordinary rebels — even ones born from boozehounds — taking down a dictator are inspirational.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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Post Malone, pop’s premier sad sack boozehound, makes his first long-form foray into pure country music.—
Shaad D’Souza,
Pitchfork,
16 Aug. 2024
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The Rangers, who held a 16-7 sot advantage in the second, stormed the B’s zone after that and Korpisalo did start to battle well.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
24 Sep. 2025
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Yet the occasional poignancy of both Toby and Andrew, the sot and the fool, doesn’t emerge in this production.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
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Caffeinated coffee drinkers also showed a lower prevalence of cognitive decline, the researchers said.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Among tea drinkers, people who consumed the most had a 14% lower risk than those who consumed the least.—
Lindsey Leake,
NBC news,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Barfly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barfly. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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