round-heeled

adjective

Easily defeated; a pushover.

Meanings

adjectiveround-heeled (comparative more round-heeled, superlative most 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.

    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)
    1 more example

    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
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