1. The eggs or larvae of a blowfly, especially those deposited on meat or other organic matter.
2. Contamination or corruption; something that spoils or taints.
Usage: figurative

1. To lay eggs on (meat or other organic matter), as a blowfly does; to contaminate or taint.

Examples

• The butcher had to discard the meat after discovering flyblows on its surface.
• Uncovered food left in the summer heat will quickly attract flyblows.
• The scandal was a flyblow on the politician's otherwise spotless record.
• If you don't refrigerate the fish, blowflies will flyblow it within hours.
• The old fruit was covered with flyblows and had to be thrown away.
• Corruption and greed are flyblows on the institution's reputation.