English Dictionary

flatfooted

adv

Unprepared to respond; unready. / Putting the entire foot down at once, rather than landing on the ball of the foot and then lowering the rest of the foot. / With one's feet flat on the ground.

He was caught flatfooted when the unexpected question was asked.

意味（1）

Unprepared to respond; unready.

Caught mentally flatfooted, Anne couldn't think of a response.

意味（2）

Putting the entire foot down at once, rather than landing on the ball of the foot and then lowering the rest of the foot.

"He claimed that Jews walk flatfooted like a camel— including me.

意味（3）

With one's feet flat on the ground.

The figure came up and squatted flatfooted on his haunches next to Patsy.

意味（4）

(of drinking) Without pausing between swallows.

Proficient drinkers could spill out an ounce, or an ounce and a half, or two, from the neck of a Solo Soda bottle in the dark, measured to the very dram, refill it with corn whisky, turn it upside down with the thumb placed carefully over the bottle's lip— for a good mix, and luck— and drink it down, flatfooted.