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What does flatfooted mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word flatfooted? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having flat feet.
  2. Unprepared to respond; unready.
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Examples
What I'm driving at is that you say flatfooted that you won't meet me again, and you give your reasons, but how am I to know they are your real reasons?
The thing made a big stir in the town, too, and a good many come out flatfooted and said it was scandalous to separate the mother and the children that way.
The piece is at once flatfooted and magical, something like a juggling act without a juggler.
The ball takes a bounce that leaves the Czech defense flatfooted and Ronaldo tries an overhead kick that goes wide.
So my dignity was shocked when I had to come down from my self-promoted position to a flatfooted infantryman again.
When running back Frank Gore ran around the right side for another touchdown, the Ravens appeared flatfooted.

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