flattie

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A flattie spider, generally in the family Selenopidae, so called because of its flattened, sprawling shape.
2. isim A flat white (a type of coffee).
3. isim A flat marinated cut of meat.

   “a chicken flattie”

4. isim 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. isim 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. isim 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. isim A flat earther.
8. isim 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. isim A Flat-coated Retriever.
10. isim A woman with very small breasts.
11. isim A navel that is neither protruding nor sunken.
12. isim A flatmate.
13. isim A flat pitch, which is typically easy to bat.
14. isim Alternative spelling of flatty.