The Collaborative International Dictionary
flat-out \flat-out\ adj. downright; plain; unqualified; as, a flat-out lie.
Syn: out-and-out, outright.
Wiktionary
a. (alternative form of flat out English) adv. (alternative form of flat out English)
Usage examples of "flat-out".
Once the explosive was disarmed the detonators were out in seconds but to Luis it seemed an hour he jumped to his feet and took this new physique of his on its first flat-out run.
What if all the Mexica weapons went soft or flat-out disappeared, as once happened with my lucky knife?
US news outlets like a cross freezes a vampire: a flat-out denial and soft-shoe explanation from a state official.
Adding to the danger of a flat-out gallop of over three thousand horsemen were the packhorses and relief horses, most of which were running out of control.
The girl wearing the pigtails, Amanda Thripp, stood quite still, watching the advancing giant, and the expression on her face was one that you might find on the face of a person who is trapped in a small field with an enraged bull which is charging flat-out towards her.
Despite the numerous inconsistencies and flat-out errors in his statement, Gitchell and his detectives decided not to put it to the simple test of questioning Jessie at the site while someone videotaped the excursion.
Leaving Maggie, Chase put his spurs to the blood bay and raced it in a flat-out run.
It was such a reasonable argument, appealing to their pride, their better nature, not the flat-out dressing down that she would have assumed Phoebe Kendale would have handed out.
His body might be human, but it was dusted with Fae exoticness, from his incredible gold-velvet skin, to those eyes that flashed with shimmering gold sparks no human had, to his flat-out intimidating sexual presence.
It was more of an obstacle course than a flat-out race, slipping in the puddles and stumbling over garbage bags, I'd taken the lead when a garbage can crashed at the end of the alley.
This column will be dedicated to the notion that Heinlein was right: that future generations will look back on us as the silliest, goofiest, flat-out craziest crew of loonies that ever took part in the historical race from womb to tomb.
The Observer showed our cards to Campbell and immediately, the government’s guardians talked away what we had on tape, flat-out denied what we had from notes and witnesses, even though S w’edlund—he was with me at the meetings with Draper, in the hugger-mugger with Liddle—gave us a sworn affidavit under penalty of perjury.
He estimated that the nothings were no more than seven or eight minutes away at a flat-out gallop, and once he was in the nothings, they would never be able to find him.
She'd have preferred a gallop, or a flat-out run, but Dylan couldn't stay on Fimlas at that gait, and they couldn't use the ponies up now when they'd need them later.
That's putting on an act alright-and I guess show business is illusion, if that's what you want to call a flat-out lie!