Other forms: flyers
A flyer is a printed sheet handed out in the street. Hand out flyers, a club flyer, a flyer through the door.
It is also spelled flier, and both are correct for both senses, the other being somebody who flies. To take a flyer means to take a chance, and a high-flyer is somebody expected to rise fast.
1nounflyerA printed sheet handed out in the street.
“A woman was handing out flyers for a new pizza place outside the station.”
flyer is a sheet.
Also accepted in games: flier, leaflet
From fly plus -er, applied to a handbill because it was scattered about.
Middle English
flye
English
fly
English, today
flyer
Built from
From fly + -er. With regard to the sense "female kangaroo": because of the high speed at which they move. fly comes from Middle English flye. From Middle English fflye, flehe, flei, fleie, fley, fleye, fleȝe, flie, fliȝe, flye, vliȝe, vlye, from Old English flēge, flēoge, flīeġe (“a fly”), from Proto-West Germanic fleugā, from Proto-Germanic fleugǭ (“a fly”), from Proto-Indo-European plewk- (“to flow, fly, run; to splash”), enlargement of plew- (“to flow, fly, run”). 2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA