flatfoot

IPA: fɫˈætfʊt

(medicine, chiefly in the plural) A condition in which the arch of the foot makes contact with the ground.
A person having the above condition.
(colloquial, archaic, derogatory, law enforcement) (plural typically flatfoots) A policeman.
(US, informal, military, slang) A sailor.

To walk around in the course of work, especially when investigating.
To dance in the style of Appalachian clogging.
To gulp an entire drink (bottle, glass, can, etc.) without pausing between swallows.
To perform an action inefficiently or awkwardly.
To wrong-foot.

Examples of "flatfoot" in Sentences

After nine years on the job, he was still a flatfoot.
He gave the flatfoot his best smile and said, Is good.
Though informed and pensive, Robinson's prose can be flatfoot.
"Lowlife peeper, disgraced flatfoot, unscrupulous snoop who --"
"flatfoot" cop who walked his beat instead of driving a squad car.
Of course the flatfoot that made the arrest claims Gates yelled at him.
It is suited more for seated audiences than the foot-stomping dance I saw in Fries, which is known as flatfoot.
It was Palin who first attacked the media at the Republican National Convention and caught the national media off guard and flatfoot.
Appalachian kids do old-time flatfoot dancing in Rockette-like precision teams; New Orleans street bands, once nearly extinct, mix spirituals and Thelonious Monk tunes.
First in PK, then turning up in a blink-and-miss-it silent cameo in WARGAMES, finally as a distracted flatfoot in the Season One wrapup of THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO.