Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
flat .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun footwear (shoes or slippers) with no heel (or a very low heel)
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Examples
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Perhaps this thing about putting the poor on the flats is an American thing?
Genius Loci: the Spirits of Place Heather McDougal 2007
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The first thing I see in Cramond on the wooded green outside the flats is a pheasant, but it never reappears.
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The first thing I see in Cramond on the wooded green outside the flats is a pheasant, but it never reappears.
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For me pulling up to a spoil bank in this area then anchoring an hour before daylight to wade fish the flats is pure fishing heaven.
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How can this dismal pattern of declining productivity and rising costs continue more than two decades after it was first identified, especially when the Postal Service has invested millions of dollars in flats automation equipment?
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When we got down in flats the alders were taller than they had looked from on high, and the many winding streams and beaver activity made finding the bear difficult.
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When we got down in flats the alders were taller than they had looked from on high, and the many winding streams and beaver activity made finding the bear difficult.
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For me pulling up to a spoil bank in this area then anchoring an hour before daylight to wade fish the flats is pure fishing heaven.
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The clampdown coincided with a successful push to accommodate tens of thousands of homeless people in flats run by housing associations.
Vulnerable tenants targeted by drug gang 'cuckoos' Jamie Doward 2010
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The bizarre navy-blue apron and officious change from high heels to dominatrix flats is the only forlorn remnant of any concept of service, feebly shored up by the unctuousness of the scripted public address announcements.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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When you hear about these women today, they are often called the Mercury 13, but they called themselves the FLATs: First Lady Astronaut Trainees.
Wally Funk Is Defying Gravity and 60 Years of Exclusion From Space By 2021
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