fruit fly

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fruit fly (plural fruit flies)

A drosophila
  1. Any insect of the Tephritidae family, whose larvae damage plant tissue.
  2. Any insect of the Drosophilidae family, whose larvae feed on ripening fruit, especially the species Drosophila melanogaster that is used in genetic research.
    Hyponym: drosophila
  3. (slang) A woman who enjoys the company of homosexual men.
    Synonym: fag hag
    • 1980 December 13, Mitzel, “Dale Barbre's Murder Transformed”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 12:
      Dan Valentine works as a bartender in a pissy and discreet Boston Village gay bar called "Bonaparte's". Clarisse is a chi-chi phruit phly who occasionally puts in time pushing real estate in fash Back Bay and the South End.

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