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slap-up, a. slang and colloq.
[slap adv.]
Very or unmistakably good or fine; of superior quality, style, etc.; first-rate, first-class, grand. (Common in 19th cent.) a. Of things. Now used esp. of meals.
1823‘J. Bee’ Slang 161 Slap-up, used for ‘bang-up’. 'Tis northern. 1827Sporting Mag. XX. 147 Send them to that slap-up work, the Sporting Magazine. 1858Dickens Lett. (1880) II. 66 A trim, sparkling, slap-up Irish jaunting-car. 1889J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat iv. 53 We'll have a good round, square, slap-up meal at seven. 1931W. S. Maugham in Nash's Pall Mall Mag. Dec. 24/1 A bottle of pop tonight, my pet, and a slap-up dinner. 1977Lancashire Life Nov. 74/2 There was a slap-up tea at the institute.
b. Of persons.
1829Caricature Title, The Slap-up Swell wot drives when hever he likes. 1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (1869) 17 He had made some slap-up acquaintances among the genteelest people at Paris. 1876J. Saunders Lion in Path xx, I'm a little sweet on her maid, slap-up creature, I can tell you. |