flattie
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flattie
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From flat + -ie.
noun flatties
- A flattie spider, generally in the family Selenopidae, so called because of its flattened, sprawling shape.
- A flat white (a type of coffee).
- A flat marinated cut of meat. a chicken flattie
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.' […]
- A flat earther.
- 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.
- A Flat-coated Retriever.
- A woman with very small breasts.
- A navel that is neither protruding nor sunken.
- A flatmate.
- A flat pitch, which is typically easy to bat.
- Alternative spelling of flatty
Talk about this word "flattie." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/flattie. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. flattie. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/flattie "flattie." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/flattie.
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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}
}