Definitions for slap-up

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

slap′-up`(adj.)

  1. Brit. Informal.excellent; first-rate.

    Category: British

Origin of slap-up:

1820–30

Princeton's WordNet

  1. bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad(p), peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing(adj)

    very good

    "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"

Wiktionary

  1. slap-up(Adjective)

    Excellent, first-class.

    "Isn't she a slap-up woman, eh, now?" pursued he; and began enumerating her attractions, as a horse-jockey would the points of a favourite animal. uE000497112uE001 Thackeray.


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