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
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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
More polished than the dancers at Fries, everyone knew how to flatfoot, and the tap shoes kept the time.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2011
Such an affliction as flatfoot, dependent upon a laxity of the ligaments in one who seems perfectly healthy and strong, may lead the analyst back to a thymus-centered personality.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.
The ward bosses, the flatfeet and the job hunters who came to deal with Higgins called Bill Boyle "Onie's Diplomatic Doorman."
From Time Magazine Archive
Like road-company Kenneth Starrs, inspectors general and their flatfoots roam through the private lives of public officials.
From Time Magazine Archive
It would be amusing to watch those flatfoots sitting around trying to sift a motive out of the thing.
From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various
"Red wins—," and the rest was lost in the quick buzz of excitement, for at Bradfield's hundred dollar flatfoots were rare.
From Loaded Dice by Clark, Ellery H.
Well, they bursts, and out comes the flatfoots, opens the gates, and lets the Royal Artillery in; and then every man fills his sack with silver, and gold, and precious stones, after a leetle scrimmaging.
From Canada and the Canadians Volume I by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry
One of the town flatfoots came down and stared in, chewing gum methodically.
From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various
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