flatfoot

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A condition in which the arch of the foot makes contact with the ground. in-plural
  2. A person having the above condition.
  3. (plural typically flatfoots) A policeman. archaic,colloquial,derogatory
  4. A sailor. US,informal,slang
动词 v.
  1. To walk around in the course of work, especially when investigating.
    — And even if they didn't know about her they might know this was his old neighborhood and go flatfooting around asking.
  2. To dance in the style of Appalachian clogging.
    — Casewell, George, and Steve had the crowd flatfooting across the floor in no time.
  3. To gulp an entire drink (bottle, glass, can, etc.) without pausing between swallows.
    — “Thanks, Kate,” Bill Bingley said, laying down a screw gun and flatfooting the Coke she handed him.
  4. To perform an action inefficiently or awkwardly.
  5. To wrong-foot.
    — In the event they lacked a proper midfield bolt, with Toni Kroos and Sami Khedira huffing around in pursuit of the whizzing green machine. The centre-backs looked flustered, left to deal with three on two as Mexico broke. Löw’s 4-2-3-1 seemed antiquated and creaky, with the old World Cup shark Thomas Müller flat-footed in a wide position.

词形变化

flatfoots plural flatfeet plural flatfoots present,singular,third-person flatfooting participle,present flatfooted participle,past flatfooted past

词汇关系

衍生词
flatfooted

词源

词源 1
From flat + foot. Piecewise doublet of platypus.
词源 2
From flat + foot. Piecewise doublet of platypus.
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