0 past participle, past simple of wrong-foot
1 to cause someone to be in a difficult situation by doing something unexpected:
The company was completely wrong-footed by the dollar's sudden recovery.
The parish council does not have sufficient information and is often wrong-footed and put at a great disadvantage.
Sure enough, at least half of the properties were bought by young marrieds and the education authority was caught wrong-footed to a disastrous degree.
He has confounded and wrong-footed the professional moaners who carp about things being too little, too late.
The press was not only wrong-footed by the appointment, but generally highly critical.
Vafrnir, wrong-footed, invites him in and to seat himself.
The prosecution was wrong-footed and never fully recovered.
As a fielding team can not manoeuvre fielders while the bowler is in his run-up, the fielding side is effectively wrong-footed with the fielders out of position.