flattie

English

A typical flatty, or Wall Crab Spider

A side-view of another species of flattie

Etymology

flat +‎ -ie

Pronunciation

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Noun

flattie (plural flatties)

1. Alternative form of flatty
2. (informal arachnology) A flattie spider, generally in the family Selenopidae, so called because of its flattened, sprawling shape.
3. (informal) A flat white (type of coffee).
4. (South Africa) A flat marinated cut of meat.

   a chicken flattie

5. (slang) A flat store.
   • 2008, Darryl Wimberley, Kaleidoscope, page 96:

     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.

6. A flat-bottomed sloop-rigged sharpie.
   • 1982, Frederick Tilp, The Chesapeake Bay of Yore: Mainly about the Rowing and Sailing Craft:

     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.

   • 1993 -, Reuel B. Parker -, The Sharpie Book, →ISBN, page 106:

     This is the "flattie" model of this skiff — there was also a V-bottomed version similar to the m odified sharpie of Figure 6-4.

7. (informal) A traditional two-dimensional motion picture, as opposed to a deepie.
   • 2008, Charlotte Chandler, It's Only a Movie:

     “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.' […]

8. (Internet slang) A flat earther.
9. (slang) The operator of a flat joint, or crooked gambling operation.
   • 1997, Josh Wilker, Austin Sarat, Classic Cons and Swindles, page 39:

     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.

10. (informal) A flat-coated retriever.
11. (informal) A person with a flat chest, i.e., without breasts.
12. (informal) A navel that is neither protruding nor sunken.
13. (informal) A flatmate.

Anagrams

• Lafitte