Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal An aircraft carrier.
- n. Informal A short haircut in which the hair is brushed straight up and cropped flat across the top.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An American perennial herb, Vernonia Noveboracensis. Also called iron-weed.
Wiktionary
- n. US A short haircut in which the hair is brushed straight up then cut flat across the top
- n. US (informal) An aircraft carrier; origin credited since 1942 to a laconic message, “Scratch one flattop,” radioed by LCDR Robert E. Dixon to USS Lexington, whose commanding officer credited the pilot with coining the standard USN slang; see Wikipedia for Battle of Coral Sea
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mil.) An aircraft carrier.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
- n. a closely cropped haircut; usually for men
Examples
“First some background from Jim Comish, executive director of AMSE: The museum has just opened a new exhibit featuring an original B-1 model house, known as a flattop because of its flat, tar roof.”
“Well at least there won't be a fight over who gets the curling iron and who gets the hair clippers with the 'flattop' attachment ...”
“flattop" and needed to find a tonsorial artist who could keep things on the level.”
“I carried a .40 S&W, but I think it is too light, but had flattop Full Metal Jackets, and I figured that I could empty the clip on a bear if I had to.”
“The Quest has something of a rising accent line on the side but that bit of rakishness is overpowered by the absolutely horizontal roof, like Boris Karloff's flattop.”
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“In most of the pictures, he has the same haircut, a sturdy flattop.”
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“The day he died, he had the same Mister Universe smile, salted blonde flattop and circus strongman build.”
“He had a flattop, and his neck was shaved and sometimes pimply.”
“The scars appeared real, and he had a flattop that made his head seem square, with bolts coming out of his neck.”
“She then takes the pot of ginger purée, mixes it with the sake she has measured out, and puts the whole mixture on the flattop to cook.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flattop’.
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Old-timey Gangster Nicknames
Real (ie. heard in a gangster flick) or verisimilitudinous.
mugsy, little bonaparte, toothpick charlie, spats columbo, the whacker, fat sam, dandy dan, knuckles, squizzy, bugsy, jimmy the claw, winky mcnoteeth and 14 more...
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Bad Sentences
Airbus, Chloromycetin, Air Miles, Doulton, Floptical, Foosball, Gatorade, Harry Potter, Hytrel, Matchbox car, MiniBar, moviola and 155 more...
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hairstyles
bun, bobtail, ponytail, cornrow, odango*, updo, bouffant, plait, braid, bunches, buzzcut, combover and 331 more...
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Give Me a Head With Hair
blonde, brunette, ginger, titian, redhead, follicle, afro, mullet, dandruff, pomade, bouffant, dreadlocks and 16 more...
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A Home for Fleas, a Hive For Bees
I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty, oily, greasy, fleecy, shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen, knotted, polka-dotted, twisted, beaded, braided, powdered, f...
combover, beehive, bun, dreadlocks, jheri curl, perm, afro, mohawk, fauxhawk, queue, cornrows, french twist and 14 more...
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Hair Today
mullet, comb-over, whiffle, crew, buzz, pompadour, afro puff, caesar, mohawk, beehive, bun, cornrows and 15 more...
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Hairstyles
pompadour, beehive, jheri curl, buzz, afro, mullet, mohawk, moptop, bangs, zulu knots, bouffant, bun and 37 more...
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