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Adjective[edit]
round-heeled (comparative more round-heeled, superlative most round-heeled)
- Easily defeated; a pushover.
1985, Ben J. Wattenberg, The good news is the bad news is wrong, page 254:
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.
- Sexually promiscuous; slu*ttish.
1978, Herman Wouk, War and Remembrance:
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.
- 2012, Rush Limbaugh (Rush Limbaugh–Sandra Fluke controversy)
- Okay, so she [Sandra Fluke]'s not a slu*t. She's "round heeled". I take it back.
