Apartment and Flats

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Apartment noun - A room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place.

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Flats is a synonym for apartment. In some cases you can use "Flats" instead a noun "Apartment".

Flats noun - Footwear (shoes or slippers) with no heel (or a very low heel).

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Apartment is a synonym for flats. You can use "Apartment" instead a noun "Flats".

That key has six flats, from which the title creates a pun with the "apartment building" definition of "flat".

Source: Pun Based Title / Music
The narrator of "Sweet Float Flats" seems to be this, given how cheerfully she sings about the horrible lives of the tenants in the titular apartment building.

Source: The Pollyanna / Music
In a level set in a high class apartment block, the inhabitants of which the mooks have murdered, one of the flats you enter has two mooks chatting while one of them plays the theme music on the dead inhabitants piano.

Source: Enemy Chatter

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