flattie

English

Etymology

flat +‎ -ie

Pronunciation

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Noun

flattie (plural flatties)

Alternative form of flatty
(informal) A flat white (type of coffee).
(South Africa) A flat marinated cut of meat.
a chicken flattie
(slang) A flat store.
- 2008, Darryl Wimberley, Kaleidoscope, page 96:
  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.
A flat-bottomed sloop-rigged sharpie.
- 1982, Frederick Tilp, The Chesapeake Bay of Yore: Mainly about the Rowing and Sailing Craft:
  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.
- 1993 -, Reuel B. Parker -, The Sharpie Book, →ISBN, page 106:
  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.
A flattie spider.
(informal) A traditional two-dimensional motion picture, as opposed to a deepie.
- 2008, Charlotte Chandler, It's Only a Movie
  “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.' […]
(Internet slang) A flat earther.
(slang) The operator of a flat joint, or crooked gambling operation.
- 1997, Josh Wilker, ‎Austin Sarat, Classic Cons and Swindles (page 39)
  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.
(informal) A flat-coated retriever.
(informal) A person with a flat chest, i.e., without breasts.
(informal) A navel that is neither protruding nor sunken.
(informal) A flatmate.

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Lafitte