[
UK
/flˈætfʊt/
]
NOUN
- a policeman who patrols a given region
- a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out
How To Use flatfoot In A Sentence
- The flatfoot takes Fred's side, since Fred looks like a big shot, though Fred only wants to smooth things over.
- With the single-step and double-step run, it's all about being on the balls of your feet and not being flatfooted. The Sun
- The Wife and Daughter, frightened as they are, raise their heads uppishly and follow flatfooted, sustained by a sense of their Sunday clothes and social consequence. Back to Methuselah
- The cops investigating the ‘love killer’ aren't the hard-bitten, cynical flatfoots one expects in a noir.
- Avoid being flatfooted and adopt a heel-toe action to your stride. The Sun
- He was flatfooted, knock-kneed and didn't remotely move his hips, just waved his arms like a lamppost. The Sun
- You may experience pain on your inner ankle and gradually lose the inner arch on the bottom of your foot, leading to flatfoot.
- It does not require a platoon of flatfoots to make discreet inquiries.
- But thanks to the flatfooted regime of the 1930s, means testing remains anathema. Times, Sunday Times
- It's illegal, of course, but Benny keeps it in operation by greasing the palms of the local flatfoots, a maneuver which takes no small amount of dexterity.