flatbacker

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noun

A female prostitute who services a large number of customers.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounflatbacker (plural flatbackers)

plural flatbackers

  1. slangA female prostitute who services a large number of customers.

    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
    2 more examples

    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

    He had four girls in this stable and worked them as “flatbackers”—they would take anyone on, one after another, fifteen, twenty tricks a night, and it didn't matter if the girls were sick, menstruating, whatever: they had to work […]

    2016, Tom Philbin, Precinct: Siberia

Origin

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

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APA

flatbacker. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flatbacker

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“flatbacker.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flatbacker. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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