flatfoot
- n a policeman who patrols a given region
- n a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out
- The dance they had vaguely in mind was to be done flatfoot.
- Why that dirty flatfoot wasn't even a Roman.
- He just wants to tell the story, in uninflected, police-procedural fashion; the movie is like a flatfoot following a suspicious trail with no special intuition but an admirable .