flat store

== English == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Pronunciation === === Noun === flat store (plural flat stores) (gambling, slang) A crooked gambling establishment, such as a casino running rigged or fixed (dishonest) games of chance. 1962: Saul Bellow & Keith Botsford, The Noble Savage, p59 (World Pub. Co) He had told me that in the old days in Chicago he had run a flat-store with a partner who had tuberculosis and also smoked cigars. 2000: Syngress Media, Inc, MCSE Windows 2000 Server Study Guide (exam 70–215), p75 (McGraw–Hill Professional; →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13)) The PDC uses the AD but exposes the data as a flat store, as in Windows NT. 2001: Elizabeth A. Wheeler, Uncontained: Urban Fiction in Postwar America, p139 (The Rutgers University Press; →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13)); quoting an unknown source “It sat on the top of a steep, unpaved hill and commanded an uninspiring view of clean, gray concrete that was six lanes wide and an assortment of boxy, flat store buildings and spacious super gas-stations” (117). A storage facility in which the material stored is simply piled on a floor (as opposed to a bin or silo). ==== Synonyms ==== (crooked gambling establishment): flat joint ==== References ====