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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(informal, arachnology) A flattie spider, generally in the family Selenopidae, so called because of its flattened, sprawling shape..
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.
Use flattie when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Flattie means (informal, arachnology) A flattie spider, generally in the family Selenopidae, so called because of its flattened, sprawling shape..
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a chicken flattie
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