flatfoot
Americannoun
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Also called: splayfoot. a condition in which the entire sole of the foot is able to touch the ground because of flattening of the instep arch
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a slang word (usually derogatory) for a policeman
Etymology
Origin of flatfoot
Example Sentences
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There was clogging, stomping and flatfoot dancing; the Dutch and English square-dancing with the Africans and the Irish.
From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2021
At seventy-five, he has the florid, bulbous mug of a cartoon flatfoot, if that flatfoot were descended from Lithuanian Talmudists and six generations of Jerusalemites.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 10, 2014
In comparison, Hauer’s silver-haired superman is more human than human, and finally more complex than Ford’s victimized flatfoot.
From Time • Jun. 25, 2012
It is suited more for seated audiences than the foot-stomping dance I saw in Fries, which is known as flatfoot.
From New York Times • May 20, 2011
The majority of so-called cases of flatfoot are, however, in the stage amenable to psychic measures.
From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Jackson, Josephine A.
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