round-heeled
adj1
Easily defeated; a pushover.
- Do we really need — or want — round-heeled labor unions? Or round-heeled government regulators? Or protectionism? We have done rather well with our open and adversarial way.1985, Ben J. Wattenberg, The good news is the bad news is wrong, page 254:
2
Sexually promiscuous; sluttish.
- At first she had wondered what he wanted of her, when (so she had heard) plenty of round-heeled Washington girls were his at a push.1978, Herman Wouk, War and Remembrance:
- Okay, so she [Sandra Fluke]'s not a slut. She's "round heeled". I take it back.2012, Rush Limbaugh (Rush Limbaugh–Sandra Fluke controversy)
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