flattie

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A flattie spider, generally in the family Selenopidae, so called because of its flattened, sprawling shape. informal
  2. A flat white (a type of coffee). informal
  3. A flat marinated cut of meat. South-Africa
    — a chicken flattie
  4. A flat store. slang
    — 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. A traditional two-dimensional motion picture, as opposed to a deepie. informal
    — “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. A flat earther. Internet
  8. The operator of a flat joint, or crooked gambling operation. slang
    — 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. A Flat-coated Retriever. colloquial
  10. A woman with very small breasts. colloquial,derogatory,humorous
  11. A navel that is neither protruding nor sunken. informal
  12. A flatmate. informal
  13. A flat pitch, which is typically easy to bat. informal
  14. Alternative spelling of flatty. alt-of,alternative

词形变化

flatties plural

词源

From flat + -ie.
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