Meaning of flattie | Babel Free

Definitions

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
4. A flat store.
   slang
5. A flat-bottomed sloop-rigged sharpie.
6. A traditional two-dimensional motion picture, as opposed to a deepie.
   informal
7. A flat earther.
   Internet
8. The operator of a flat joint, or crooked gambling operation.
   slang
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

Examples

“a chicken flattie”

“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.”

“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.”

“This is the "flattie" model of this skiff — there was also a V-bottomed version similar to the m odified sharpie of Figure 6-4.”

““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.' […]”

“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.”

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