flyer

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fly=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

flyer, n. [See Flier.].

•  One that uses wings.  [1913 Webster]
•  The fly of a flag: See Fly, n., 6.  [1913 Webster]
•  Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc.  [1913 Webster]
•  One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder.  [1913 Webster]
•  The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.  [1913 Webster]
•  The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.  Internat. Cyc.  [1913 Webster]
•  A small operation not involving ? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture.  Bartlett.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

flyer, n. (also flier) colloq.
1 an airman or airwoman.
2 a thing that flies in a specified way (a poor flyer).
3 a fast-moving animal or vehicle.
4 an ambitious or outstanding person.
5 US a small handbill.
6 US a speculative investment.
7 a flying jump.

THESAURUS

flyer

Amtrak, Jehu, acrobat, aerialist, aeronaut, aeroplaner, aeroplanist, agiotage, air pilot, airplanist, arbitrage, astronaut, aviator, baggage train, bareback rider, barnstormer, birdman, buying in, cable railroad, calculated risk, captain, chance, choo-choo, circus artist, cloud seeder, clown, cog railroad, cog railway, commercial pilot, copilot, crop-duster, el, electric, electric train, elevated, equestrian director, equilibrist, equity capital, express, express train, flier, flutter, fortune, freight, freight train, freighter, funicular, gamble, goer, goods train, hazard, hell-driver, high-wire artist, horse racer, hummer, hustler, instructor, interurban, jet jockey, jockey, juggler, licensed pilot, lightning express, limited, lion tamer, liquidation, local, luck, metro, milk train, monorail, parliamentary, parliamentary train, passenger train, pilot, play, plunge, profit taking, racer, rack-and-pinion railroad, railroad train, rainmaker, rattler, ringmaster, risk, rolling stock, round trade, runner, scalping, scorcher, shuttle, shuttle train, sizzler, slack-rope artist, snake charmer, special, speculation, speed demon, speeder, spot sale, stepper, stockjobbery, stockjobbing, streamliner, stunt flier, stunt man, subway, sword swallower, test pilot, tightrope walker, train, trapeze artist, tube, tumbler, turfman, turn, uncertainty, underground, venture, venture capital, way train, wingman

ROGET THESAURUS

flyer

Chance

N chance, lot, fate, luck, good luck, mascot, speculation, venture, stake, game of chance, mere shot, random shot, blind bargain, leap in the dark, pig in a poke, fluke, potluck, faro bank, flyer, limit, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, drawing lots, sortilegy, sortition, sortes, sortes Virgilianae, rouge et noir, hazard, ante, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo, craps, faro, roulette, pitch and toss, chuck, farthing, cup tossing, heads or tails cross and pile, poker-dice, wager, bet, betting, gambling, the turf, gaming house, gambling house, betting house, bucket shop, gambling joint, totalizator, totalizer, hell, betting ring, dice, dice box, gambler, gamester, man of the turf, adventurer, dicer, fortuitous, unintentional, unintended, accidental, not meant, undesigned, purposed, unpremeditated, unforeseen, uncontemplated, never thought of, random, indiscriminate, promiscuous, undirected, aimless, driftless, designless, purposeless, causeless, without purpose, possible, unforeseeable, unpredictable, chancy, risky, speculative, dicey, randomly, by chance, fortuitously, unpredictably, unforeseeably, casually, unintentionally, unwittingly, en passant, by the way, incidentally, as it may happen, at random, at a venture, at haphazard, acierta errando, dextro tempore, fearful concatenation of circumstances, fortuitous combination of circumstances, le jeu est le fils d'avarice et le pere du desespo, the happy combination of fortuitous circumstances, the fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms, God does not play dice with the universe, chance, indetermination, accident, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, chance medley, random, luck, raccroc, casualty, contingence, adventure, hit, fate, equal chance, lottery, tombola, toss up, turn of the table, turn of the cards, hazard of the die, chapter of accidents, fickle finger of fate, cast of the dice, throw of the dice, heads or tails, flip of a coin, wheel of Fortune, sortes, sortes Virgilianae, probability, possibility, odds, long odds, run of luck, accidentalness, main chance, odds on, favorable odds, contingency, dependence (uncertainty), situation (circumstance), statistics, theory of Probabilities, theory of Chances, bookmaking, assurance, speculation, gaming, casual, fortuitous, accidental, adventitious, causeless, incidental, contingent, uncaused, undetermined, indeterminate, random, statistical, possible, unintentional, by chance, accidentally, by accident, casually, perchance, for aught one knows, as good would have it, as bad would have it, as luck would have it, as ill-luck would have it, as chance would have it, as it may be, as it may chance, as it may turn up, as it may happen, as the case may be, grasps the skirts of happy chance, the accident of an accident, There but for the grace of God go I.