frequent flyer

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Noun

frequent flyer (plural frequent flyers)

  1. A person who flies frequently on commercial airliners.
    As he flew home every weekend, he considered himself a frequent flyer.
  2. Someone who is habitually a nuisance.
    Drunks tend to be the most common frequent flyers.
    • 2023 April 8, @natfriedman, Twitter‎[1] (post), X Corp.:
      The police who arrested them -- and were later forced to release them by the DA -- said these criminals were "frequent flyers." We didn't want to leave SF -- we love it there -- but we have a young kid and it seemed irresponsible to stay in a place where drug addicts commit home invasions to the point where they are called "frequent flyers."
  3. (medicine, slang, derogatory) A patient who frequents a health facility, with minor or malingering-type presentations.
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