Green’s Dictionary of Slang

roundheeled adj.

[roundheels n.]
(US)

1. easily defeated, complaisant.

A. Baer ‘Bugs’ Baer Says 1 Oct. [synd. col.] ‘The gambler goes around and fixes up a round-heeled series.’ ‘What’s that?’ ‘A pushover’ .
[US]Goldin et al. DAUL 181/1: Round-heeled. To be easily victimized or used.
[US]B. Veeck Veeck — as in Wreck 140: Frank, of course, is round-heeled when it comes to a trade. [...] I mean that if you come to Frank with a proposition, he can’t say no.

2. of a woman or gay man, promiscuous.

[US]J.D. MacDonald Price of Murder (1978) 73: Silly bitch. Lee deserved the best, not a round-heeled bag like that.
[US]W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 122: Round-heeled boy, one greased brain goose and he flop in an obscene position.
[US]H. Rawson Dict. of Invective (1991) 331: Round-heeler and round-heeled also have been sighted.
[US]J. Ellroy Hilliker Curse 14: Fleet #2 tailed the roundheeled redhead to juke joints and hot-sheet motels.