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round-heeled

round-heeled adjective: easily defeated; a pushover.

Adjective

round-heeled (comparative more round-heeled, superlative most round-heeled)

  1. Easily defeated; a pushover.
    • Do we really need — or want — round-heeled labor unions? Or round-heeled government regulators? Or protectionism? We have done rather well with our open and adversarial way.1985, Ben J. Wattenberg, The good news is the bad news is wrong, page 254
  2. Sexually promiscuous; sluttish.
    • At first she had wondered what he wanted of her, when (so she had heard) plenty of round-heeled Washington girls were his at a push.1978, Herman Wouk, War and Remembrance
    • Okay, so she [Sandra Fluke]'s not a slut. She's "round heeled". I take it back.2012, Rush Limbaugh (Rush Limbaugh–Sandra Fluke controversy)

Forms of round-heeled

comparativemore round-heeled
superlativemost round-heeled

Questions about round-heeled

What does round-heeled mean?
Round-heeled means easily defeated; a pushover.
What part of speech is round-heeled?
Round-heeled is an adjective.

Words near round-heeled in the dictionary

  1. round-eared tube-nosed bats
  2. round-eyed
  3. round-headed bush clover
  4. round-headed bush clovers
  5. round-headed rampion
  6. round-heeled
  7. round-leaved bloodwood
  8. round-like
  9. round-lobed hepatica
  10. round-lobed hepaticas
  11. round-mouthed

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