Flatfoot

Quick meaning: Flatfoot is a noun meaning (medicine, chiefly in the plural) A condition in which the arch of the foot makes contact with the ground.

Meaning

(medicine, chiefly in the plural) A condition in which the arch of the foot makes contact with the ground.

More Meanings

1. A person having the above condition.
2. (colloquial, archaic, derogatory, law enforcement) (plural typically flatfoots) A policeman.
3. (US, informal, military, slang) A sailor.
4. To walk around in the course of work, especially when investigating.
5. To dance in the style of Appalachian clogging.
6. To gulp an entire drink (bottle, glass, can, etc.) without pausing between swallows.
7. To perform an action inefficiently or awkwardly.

Example Sentences

Casewell, George, and Steve had the crowd flatfooting across the floor in no time.

“Thanks, Kate,” Bill Bingley said, laying down a screw gun and flatfooting the Coke she handed him.

And even if they didn't know about her they might know this was his old neighborhood and go flatfooting around asking.

Meanwhile, a bobby placidly flatfooting his beat a few feet away recognized Marlene under the street lamp and naturally assumed the girls had too, and were merely trying to get her autograph.

Word Forms

• flatfoots
• flatfeet
• flatfooting
• flatfooted

Synonyms for flatfoot

Depending on context, synonyms include patrolman, splayfoot.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include splayfoot, patrolman, cop, clawfoot, clubfoot, dropfoot.

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