2. Noun. (slang dated pejorative) More than one policeman ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flatfoots
1. flatfoot [v] - See also: flatfoot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatfoots
Literary usage of Flatfoots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Canada and the Canadians, in 1846: In 1846 by Richard Henry Bonnycastle (1846)
"We fights with real powder and ball, the flatfoots fights with bird-shot. We knows
the perry-ferry of the circumference of a round shot. ..."
2. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg (1863)
"And our only town blackbird in Queen Street was singing, Word came that the
flatfoots were a regiment no more A regiment no more—a regiment no more ..."
3. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1856)
"And our only town blackbird in Queen Street was singing, Word came that the
flatfoots were a regiment no more A regiment no more—a regiment no more ; In the ..."
4. A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 by Thomas Allston Brown (1903)
"37 and 39 Bowery, was built in in 1833, by the Zoological Institute (or flatfoots),
and was first used as a menagerie. In 1835 l* was remodelled into an ..."
5. Dog-watches at Sea by Stanton H. (Stanton Henry) King (1901)
"... for us flatfoots. To-morrow, I will get the breakfast, and I will clean up
the fo'c'sle for a week. Every man for'ard will take his turn at it, ..."
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