flatiron

noun

1. A simple iron (for pressing laundry) which is heated on a stove.

   “The evil-smelling larrikin, beer-imbued — The evil-loving brute-man homeward goes, He kicks his dirty children with his boot, Cursing their hunger, — and his poor worn wife With cold flat-irons and handled broom awaits His coming, to revile his drinking hard.”

2. A pair of metal tongs with heated ceramic plates used for straightening hair.
3. (especially)a quadrilateral with two parallel sides, one of which is very short, and whose non-parallel sides are longer than either parallel side.
4. A steeply sloping triangular landform created by the differential erosion of a steeply dipping, erosion-resistant layer of rock overlying softer strata.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of flat iron steak.

adj

1. (not-comparable)Having a flatiron shape.

   “a flatiron building”

   “The street down which Warwick had come intersected Front Street at a sharp angle in front of the old hotel, forming a sort of flatiron block at the junction, known as Liberty Point”

name

1. A district of Manhattan, New York City, United States.

   “On a recent Thursday, Vani Hari, perhaps Public Enemy No. 1 of big food companies, sat at ABC Kitchen in the Flatiron district wearing a purple sweater with a giant pink heart and pink heart-shaped crystal earrings.”