What fly means in colloquial terms is stylish, attractive, cool, fashionable, impressive, confident, used as informal compliment in everyday speech, especially in African American Vernacular English and hip hop culture that entered mainstream colloquial language. In colloquial terms, if someone says that jacket is fly, or you look fly tonight, they mean you look stylish, attractive, fashionable, cool. Fly in colloquial terms can describe clothing, appearance, car, music, or anything considered impressive. It is similar to saying cool, dope, fresh, lit, fire, drip in different eras. As colloquial adjective, fly is positive, as in fly guy meaning stylish man, fly girl meaning stylish woman. In colloquial verb use, fly can mean to move quickly, as in time flies, to leave quickly, as in I gotta fly, meaning I have to go. As noun colloquially, fly can mean annoying insect, as in that fly is bothering me, or zipper flap, as in your fly is open. So in colloquial terms, fly most often means stylish and cool when used as adjective, which is informal slang that has become part of everyday colloquial speech, originating from idea of flying high and impressive, and used to compliment appearance or style in friendly, informal conversation.
1 votes
Marked as accepted