Definitions
a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out
Word origin
From flat + foot. Piecewise doublet of platypus.
Used in a sentence
“And even if they didn't know about her they might know this was his old neighborhood and go flatfooting around asking.”
“Meanwhile, a bobby placidly flatfooting his beat a few feet away recognized Marlene under the street lamp and naturally assumed the girls had too, and were merely trying to get her autograph.”
“I'd spent a very long day flatfooting it round housing estates near Old Street, looking for a twelve-year-old boy who I'd never managed to find though the police eventually had, two weeks later.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Fallen-arch condition”8 letters
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