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flatcatchers

flatcatchers is the plural of flatcatcher.

Meaning of flatcatcher

Noun

flatcatcher (plural flatcatchers)

  1. (dated, slang) An animal in poor condition that may be sold to an unwitting purchaser.
    • […] the limbs don't grow in proportion, and a heavy-topped light-timbered brute comes into the market unsaleable, or perchance a flatcatcher.1871, Bath and West and Southern Counties Society, Journal, page 237

Questions about flatcatchers

What is flatcatchers the plural of?
Flatcatchers is the plural of flatcatcher.

Words near flatcatchers in the dictionary

  1. flatcap
  2. flatcaps
  3. flatcar
  4. flatcars
  5. flatcatcher
  6. flatcatchers
  7. flatcest
  8. flatch
  9. flatch-kennurd
  10. flatch-yennep
  11. flatch-yenork

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