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Flattie
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- 1 A flattie spider, generally in the family Selenopidae, so called because of its flattened, sprawling shape. informal
- 2 A flat white (a type of coffee). informal
- 3 A flat marinated cut of meat. South-Africa
"a chicken flattie"
- 4 A flat store. slang
"All the rube had to do was throw a baseball into a barrel and get a prize. How hard could that be? But the barrel was rigged with a false bottom as resilient as a trampoline so that a ball thrown from the specified distance invariably bounced out. Not everything was a flattie."
- 5 A flat-bottomed sloop-rigged sharpie.
"Flatties were in use on Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds of North Carolina, employed for shoal water fishing and trapping and usually manned by black boatmen ... no duck-hunting or use of guns was allowed by the local white men."
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- 6 A traditional two-dimensional motion picture, as opposed to a deepie. informal
"“SOMEDAY,” Hitchcock told me, “there will be three-dimensional wall Video screens, and Dial M for Murder will come into its own. But at the time I was making that picture, I worried that 3-D might be a fad that would fade and that Dial M would go out as a 'flattie.' […]"
- 7 A flat earther. Internet
- 8 The operator of a flat joint, or crooked gambling operation. slang
"A carnival hawker may run a legitimate game in which you have a fair chance to win, but then again he may be a flattie — a carnival grifter expert at separating the unwary from their money."
- 9 A Flat-coated Retriever. informal
- 10 A person with a flat chest, i.e., without breasts. informal
- 11 A navel that is neither protruding nor sunken. informal
- 12 A flatmate. informal
- 13 Alternative spelling of flatty. alt-of, alternative
Etymology
From flat + -ie.
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