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flatfoot

noun as in constable

noun as in gumshoe

Strongest matches

noun as in police

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But of course the movie’s main literary business, its principal reason for existing, is implied by the fedoras and floppy neckties, the cigarettes and slugs of whiskeys, the flatfoots and dangerous blondes.

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“Christmas in the Smokies,” its signature show, has been running since 1990, with a live orchestra and Appalachian storytelling, a flatfoot dancer and a fiddler.

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There was clogging, stomping and flatfoot dancing; the Dutch and English square-dancing with the Africans and the Irish.

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She started writing weekly emails to all her contacts, sharing videos and offering online classes in flatfoot dancing and clogging.

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When Luft tried to control Garland’s pill intake, she turned his “concern into a game,” he said, referring to him as “the cop, the narc, the flatfoot.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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