flat store

Noun

 * 1)  A crooked gambling establishment, such as a casino running rigged or fixed (dishonest) games of chance.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) * 2000: Syngress Media, Inc, MCSE Windows 2000 Server Study Guide (exam 70–215), p75 (McGraw–Hill Professional; ISBN 0072123869 (10), ISBN 978-0072123869 (13))
 * The PDC uses the AD but exposes the data as a flat store, as in Windows NT.
 * 1) * 2001: Elizabeth A. Wheeler, Uncontained: Urban Fiction in Postwar America, p139 (The Rutgers University Press; ISBN 0813529735 (10), ISBN 978-0813529738 (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).
 * 1) A storage facility in which the material stored is simply piled on a floor (as opposed to a bin or silo).
 * 1) A storage facility in which the material stored is simply piled on a floor (as opposed to a bin or silo).
 * 1) A storage facility in which the material stored is simply piled on a floor (as opposed to a bin or silo).