A small venture in stocks, on the chance of a rise.
1870. Members spoke frankly of their “neat turns” and “flyers”; and the great majority were quite ready to allow that, although they never speculated, they really could not name another house of which so much could be affirmed.—James K. Medbery, ‘Men and Mysteries of Wall Street,’ p. 111 (Boston).
1886. [He looked] to see how much he had already made on his flyer.—Pall Mall Gazette, Aug. 26. (N.E.D.)
1888. The temptation to take a flyer in the markets.—New Princeton Review, v. 328. (N.E.D.)
