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flatfoot

[flat-foot, -foot] / ˈflætˌfʊt, -ˈfʊt /
















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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

Walter with his money and prestige or Victor with his unbroken marriage and flatfoot honor?

From New York Times Mar. 16, 2017

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

He'd done nearly five blocks before a flatfoot steps out of a doorway and waves a nightstick at him.

From Torchy and Vee by Sewell Ford

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

"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 Ellery H. Clark

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 Richard Henry Bonnycastle

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

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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