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flattie en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From flat + -ie.

Meanings

1. (informal) A flattie spider, generally in the family Selenopidae, so called because of its flattened, sprawling shape.
2. (informal) A flat white (a type of coffee).
3. (South-Africa) A flat marinated cut of meat.
   • a chicken flattie
4. (slang) A flat store.
   • 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. 2008, Darryl Wimberley, Kaleidoscope, page 96:
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. 1982, Frederick Tilp, The Chesapeake Bay of Yore: Mainly about the Rowing and Sailing Craft:
   • 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. 1993 -, Reuel B. Parker -, The Sharpie Book, →ISBN, page 106:
6. (informal) A traditional two-dimensional motion picture, as opposed to a deepie.
   • “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.' […] 2008, Charlotte Chandler, It's Only a Movie:
7. (Internet) A flat earther.
8. (slang) The operator of a flat joint, or crooked gambling operation.
   • 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. 1997, Josh Wilker, Austin Sarat, Classic Cons and Swindles, page 39:
9. (colloquial) A Flat-coated Retriever.
10. (colloquial, derogatory, humorous) A woman with very small breasts.
11. (informal) A navel that is neither protruding nor sunken.
12. (informal) A flatmate.
13. (informal) A flat pitch, which is typically easy to bat.
14. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of flatty.
    alt of flatty

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