flattie

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flattie

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From flat + -ie.

noun flatties

  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.
  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.
  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.' […]
  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.
  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. alternative Alternative spelling of flatty

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@misc{flattie_2026,
  title = {flattie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/flattie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}