Definitions for fly-by-night

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Spelling: [flahy-bahy-nahyt]
IPA: /ˈflaɪ baɪˌnaɪt/

Fly-By-Night is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 210 anagrams from letters in fly-by-night (--bfghilntyy).

Definitions for fly-by-night

noun

  1. a person or thing that is unreliable, especially a debtor who evades or attempts to evade creditors.
  2. a person regarded as a poor credit risk.

adjective

  1. not reliable or responsible, especially in business; untrustworthy:
  2. not lasting; brief; impermanent; transitory:

Origin of fly-by-night

First recorded in 1790-1800

Examples for fly-by-night

Does any one figger I'll allow some fly-by-night charl'tan to go reeflectin' on me?

Had the wind been directly astern, the course of the fly-by-night would have been smoother.

She now knew where she was, but was nearly dying from the exhaustion of his fly-by-night expeditions.

Shown up in our newspapers as a ditch-digger—a fly-by-night—a nobody!

He'll be out with a fly-by-night troupe afore the next month.

And not fly-by-night issues either, but stalwarts such as G.E., Citi, Google.

What gets me is, when you boil our two fly-by-night stories down, I've come here to be alone.

She certainly has acted like a fly-by-night up to this time.

Some of the groups have been around for decades, others are fly-by-night.

Torched on by that fly-by-night who'll be getting out of town and who'll be forgotten inside a week.

Word Value for fly-by-night
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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