flat outs

Noun

flat out (plural flat outs)

1. (US, dated) A total failure.
2. A baked portion of flatbread; a baked item that is not meant to rise.
   • His hands were of the same somber hue as the bare feet of the children who clustered near the table, looking toward it whistfully^([sic]) until the eldest mustered sufficient courage to ask his mother for "one of 'em yere flat-outs."1881, Mary E. Jackson, The Spy of Osawatomie; Or, The Mysterious Companions of Old John Brown, page 296
3. A wrap, an item of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
4. A section of piste that is relatively flat, causing or allowing skiers to slow down.
   • The would-be daredevils are mercifully prevented from going too fast by strategically placed flat-outs.1979 November, Tamsin Venn, “The Pleasures of Keystone”, in Skiing, page 107
5. An uncambered corner of racetrack; a racetrack whose corners are uncambered.
   • The circuit is very well endowed with corners of all sorts from hairpins to flat-outs, has a 1,540-yd. straight and measures 5.2 miles, partly on an airfield, partly through a built-up area.1952, Motor, volume 102, number 2654, page 31

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