flattie
nounEtymology From flat + -ie.
14 senses
- 1A flattie spider, generally in the family Selenopidae…
- 2A flat white (a type of coffee).
- 3A flat marinated cut of meat.
- 4A flat store.
- 5A flat-bottomed sloop-rigged sharpie.
- 6A traditional two-dimensional motion picture, as opposed…
- 7A flat earther.
- 8The operator of a flat joint, or crooked gambling operation.
- 9A Flat-coated Retriever.
- 10A woman with very small breasts.
- 11A navel that is neither protruding nor sunken.
- 12A flatmate.
- 13A flat pitch, which is typically easy to bat.
- 14Alternative spelling of flatty.
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:
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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
Ball games, Cricket, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Informal A flat pitch, which is typically easy to bat.
14
Alternative Alternative spelling of flatty.