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flatfoot
verb- a police officer, especially one assigned on foot patrol US, 1912
- That dumb flatfoot, Tracy, will beat us up. — Chester Gould, Dick Tracy Meets the Night Crawler, p. 160, 1945
- All day long we haunted the Western Union office, looking over our shoulders to see if that flatfoot was trailing us[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 131, 1946
- I’ll bet you a sandwich against a marriage license he’s got a flatfoot downstairs covering every exist in the place[.] — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 15, 1947
- The flatfoots busted him down last night with a load–he’s in the Tombs. — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 232, 1952
- But the subway is moving. “So long flatfoot!” I yell[.] — William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, p. 2, 1957
- Everything about him from the armful of gold hash stripes to the box-toed custom-made shoes said “flatfoot.” — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 39, 1959
- He could remember when he’d made more arrests than all the other flatfoots combined. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 111, 1960
- How can anyone compare a good girl like Tilly with a mob of droobs and flat-feet? — George Blaikie, Remember Smith’s Weekly?, p. 218, 1966
- “Go chew on your banana, flatfoot.” — William Brashler, City Dogs, p. 47, 1976
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 52, 1996
- [T]he Cadet School at Hendon actually did produce a flatfoot who represented his country at the race-walking event in the 1992 Olympics[.] — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 53, 2002
- to walk US
- I say that you niggers better flat-foot it on back home. — Joseph Nazel, Black Cop, p. 98, 1974
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