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flatbacker

flatbacker noun: a female prostitute who services a large number of customers.

Noun

flatbacker (plural flatbackers)

  1. (slang) A female prostitute who services a large number of customers.
    • Good flatbackers always fare well, which accounts for their swelling ranks. They work the offices along Madison and Lex like a Schrafft's super-hospitality wagon. Score the flustered john in the elevator, simple!1971, New York Magazine, volume 4, number 30, page 26
    • If we had straight flatbackers, as we called them, they turned a date for twenty or twenty-five dollars. Nobody was allowed to rob them because they'd become regular customers.2014, John Turnipseed, Cecil Murphey, Bloodline

Forms of flatbacker

pluralflatbackers

Origin of flatbacker

From flat + back + -er, from spending time lying flat on their backs.

Questions about flatbacker

What does flatbacker mean?
Flatbacker means a female prostitute who services a large number of customers.
What part of speech is flatbacker?
Flatbacker is a noun.
What is the plural of flatbacker?
The plural of flatbacker is flatbackers.

Words near flatbacker in the dictionary

  1. flat-track bully
  2. flat-warming
  3. flat-warmings
  4. flat-wound
  5. flatback
  6. flatbacker
  7. flatbackers
  8. flatbacks
  9. flatband
  10. flatbed
  11. flatbed editor

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