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It can be used to refer to a police officer, or as a verb, to mean to investigate someone. Example: The flatfoot spent hours gathering evidence at the crime scene.
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flatfoot
noun
A condition in which the arch of the foot makes contact with the ground
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At seventy-five, hashas the florid, bulbous mug of a cartoon flatfoot, if that flatfoot were descended from Lithuanian Talmudists and six generations of Jerusalemites.
Guests can attend competitions of flatfoot dancers, folk singers and string players on fiddle, dulcimer, mandolin and banjo performing old-time and bluegrass music.
It is suited more for seated audiences than the foot-stomping dance I saw in Fries, which is known as flatfoot.
They make short work of their instructive mission and spend their energy on things that require it: flatfoot dancing, jug playing, shouting.
In her article "Mountain Music by the Mile" (May 22 , 2011 Sarah Wildman, accompanied by her 2-year-old daughter, her partner and his parents, danced flatfoot at a Friday Night Jamboree in Floyd (above); listened to bluegrass at the Lincoln Theater in Marion; and heard old-time, even older than bluegrass, at the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons (carterfamilyfold.org).org
But for sheer lived-in plausibility, you'd have to go some to beat veteran flatfoot DC Alfred "Tosh" Lines (played by the late Kevin Lloyd).
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To indicate that they are not pampered, the actors who play the Glasgow flatfeet on television say "murghder" instead of "murder".
Parisians called them tristes-à-pattes (flatfoots), and the English — witness Constable Dogberry, in "Much Ado About Nothing" — also poked fun at them.
Her show is like the best kind of party: a fiddler plays; in addition to tap, there's zydeco, Appalachian flatfooting, Lindy Hop, and about ten other styles of dance.
And while there certainly aren't eight million films about the city's police, there are hundreds of dramas featuring roguish flatfoots, heroic gumshoes, hard-boiled detectives and corrupt crime-stoppers.
Although other former flatfoots have walked a beat and earned Harvard degrees -- former Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, for one -- Dr. Reppetto is unusual in that "he puts things in historical context," Mr. Bratton said.
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