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ˈflat-foot
1. a. (See quot. 1884.)
1870Holmes Syst. Surg. III. 693 A slight degree of flat-foot is common in girls. 1884Syd. Soc. Lex., Flat-foot, a condition of the foot in which the tarsus does not possess, or loses altogether, its usual arch.
b. A condition in draughthorses in which the hoof is large and very sloping, with a flat sole and large prominent frog.
1894D. Roberge Foot of Horse 58 Thoroughbred horses are great sufferers from overgrowth of hoof, although the form of his foot is preferable to that of the flat foot or the convex form. 1903Dis. Horse (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 372 Flatfoot is that condition in which the sole has little or no convexity. 1906H. C. Reeks Dis. Horse's Foot 144 Flat-foot is undoubtedly a congenital defect, and is seen commonly in horses of a heavy, lymphatic type.
2. a. U.S. slang. (See quot.)
1887Proctor Amer. in Knowledge 1 June 184/1 An American ‘flat-foot’ is a man who stands firmly for his party.
b. A foot-soldier, an infantryman. (Cf. flat feet, quot. 1873 s.v. flat a. 15.)
1889Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang I. 348/2 Flat⁓feet, a foot-soldier; applied generally to the Foot-guards. 1903Westm. Gaz. 13 Feb. 2/2 To increase the paper strength of the Army by..‘flat-foots’ who could not march. 1955Archivum Linguisticum VII. 68 The flatfoot or infantrymen [sic].
c. A sailor. slang.
1897Daily News 3 Sept. 5/6 When some marine reads it, he'll say, ‘It's easy to see that a flat-foot has put that in the paper.’ 1898Tit-Bits 30 Apr. 81/3 The blue⁓jacket himself is a ‘flatfoot’. 1904Kipling Traffics & Discov. 73 E's a flat-foot, a indigo-blue matlow. 1909J. R. Ware Passing Eng. 134/1 Flat-foot, a young sailor less than twenty-one.
d. A policeman, a plain-clothes man. (Cf. flatty2 3.) slang (orig. U.S.).
1913A. Stringer Shadow ii. 48 By the time he had fought his way up to the office of Second Deputy he no longer resented being known as..a ‘flat foot’. 1932J. T. Farrell Studs Lonigan (1936) iv. 73 He got sore as a boil and stepped up to the lousy flatfoot. 1933E. C. Vivian Ladies in Case iii. 49 Spike laid out a flat⁓foot—pleeceman, I mean. 1938J. Curtis They drive by Night xxiii. 262, I don't like no flatfoots myself, but I'll help them get anyone of that sort. 1943P. Cheyney You can always Duck iii. 52 This guy's a flatfoot—one of Mr. Hoover's little boys—a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1948C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident vii. 83 Suppose the flatfeet got to hear of it? 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. xvii. 369 His name is P. C. Wallace but we call him old Walrus. When he has gone round the corner we call names such as slob, natter knob, or flatfeet.
e. A person (with flat feet). colloq.
1922Joyce Ulysses 375 Some flatfoot tramp on it in the morning.
So ˈflat-foot v. intr., to walk in a flat-footed manner.
1932J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan iv. 194 He flat-footed it back to the shade. 1966Listener 27 Jan. 147/1 ‘Fit for an Alba..’ he said, flat-footing round one of Europe's most extravagant palaces. |