flatfoot

Plural: flatfeet, flatfoots

Noun

• A foot condition; informally, a police officer.
• a policeman who patrols a given region
• a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out
• A condition in which the arch of the foot makes contact with the ground.
• A person having the above condition.
• (plural typically flatfoots) A policeman.
• A sailor.

Verb

Verb Forms: flatfooted, flatfooting, flatfoots

• To walk with a dragging, heavy, or clumsy gait.
• To walk around in the course of work, especially when investigating.
• To dance in the style of Appalachian clogging.
• To gulp an entire drink (bottle, glass, can, etc.) without pausing between swallows.
• To perform an action inefficiently or awkwardly.
• To wrong-foot.

Examples

• After hours of Scrabble, his brain felt like it had FLATFOOT, making every word selection painful.
• He began to FLATFOOT his way through the game, unable to find any good moves on the Words With Friends board.

Synonyms

patrolman, pes planus, splayfoot, police officer

Anagrams of flatfoot