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From the character in the blaxploitation film Super Fly (1972).

superfly (plural superflies)

1. An ostentatious, self-confident person, especially a black drug dealer.
   • 1973, “Future Shock”, in Back to the World, performed by Curtis Mayfield:

     Oh, see them passing / See how they're dancing to the superfly

superfly (comparative more superfly, superlative most superfly)

1. (slang) Excellent, very cool.
   • 1997, “Sex and Candy”, performed by Marcy Playground:

     Yeah, there she was, like disco superfly

   • 2001, “Your Woman Has Just Been Sighted (Ring the Alarm)”, in Music & Me, performed by Nate Dogg ft. Jermaine Dupri:

     I'm all up in the air, telling her some superfly shit she need to hear

From super- +‎ fly.

superfly (plural superflies)

1. A fly (insect) with remarkable properties, such as resistance to insecticide.

• “superfly n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
• “superfly adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present