flattie

noun

1. (informal)A flattie spider, generally in the family Selenopidae, so called because of its flattened, sprawling shape.
2. (informal)A flat white (a type of coffee).
3. (South-Africa)A flat marinated cut of meat.

   “a chicken flattie”

4. (slang)A flat store.

   “All the rube had to do was throw a baseball into a barrel and get a prize. How hard could that be? But the barrel was rigged with a false bottom as resilient as a trampoline so that a ball thrown from the specified distance invariably bounced out. Not everything was a flattie.”

5. A flat-bottomed sloop-rigged sharpie.

   “Flatties were in use on Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds of North Carolina, employed for shoal water fishing and trapping and usually manned by black boatmen ... no duck-hunting or use of guns was allowed by the local white men.”

   “This is the "flattie" model of this skiff — there was also a V-bottomed version similar to the m odified sharpie of Figure 6-4.”

6. (informal)A traditional two-dimensional motion picture, as opposed to a deepie.

   ““SOMEDAY,” Hitchcock told me, “there will be three-dimensional wall Video screens, and Dial M for Murder will come into its own. But at the time I was making that picture, I worried that 3-D might be a fad that would fade and that Dial M would go out as a 'flattie.' […]”

7. (Internet)A flat earther.
8. (slang)The operator of a flat joint, or crooked gambling operation.

   “A carnival hawker may run a legitimate game in which you have a fair chance to win, but then again he may be a flattie — a carnival grifter expert at separating the unwary from their money.”

9. (colloquial)A Flat-coated Retriever.
10. (colloquial, derogatory, humorous)A woman with very small breasts.
11. (informal)A navel that is neither protruding nor sunken.
12. (informal)A flatmate.
13. (informal)A flat pitch, which is typically easy to bat.
14. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of flatty.