Definition of "flatties" [flatties]

• Plural form of flatty. (noun)
• A pair of flat shoes (noun)

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• "He stood there for some time, unrecognized, unnoticed, watching the platoons of broad-chested "flatties" as they swung out and off to their midnight patrols, marking the plainly clad "elbows" as they passed quietly up and down the great stone steps."
• "It’s just that, in this case, the flatties are a bit more skilled at hiding themselves that I’m used to.”"
• ""flatties" with their ash night-sticks at their side, soldiers without bugles or banner, going out to do the goodly tasks of the Law, soldiers of whom he was once the leader, the pride, the man to whom they pointed as the Vidoc of America."