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Definition of Slap-up
1. Adjective. Very good. "You look simply smashing"
Language type: Colloquialism
Similar to: Good
Definition of Slap-up
1. Adjective. (informal) Excellent, first-class. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slap-up
Literary usage of Slap-up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"The dress of a dandy or the equipage of an exquisite is •' slap-op," " prune
slap-up," or " slap-bang-up. ... "[The] more slap-up still ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1865)
"The word is a corruption of slap-up or slub-up (like Fr. ... To slap up, to eat
quickly, to lick up food.—Hal. ..."
3. Slang: A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-ton by John Badcock (1823)
"Slashing fighter—he who throws about his arms without judgment, but heavily.
slap-up—used for ' bang-up.' "Tig northern. Slavey—a servant of all-work at a ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect, and of Provincialisms Used in the by William Henry Long (1886)
"SLAP UP. To be slap up, is to be quite well, to look well, or to be well dressed.
"Hows't git on, you?" "Oh, slap up, mayet. ..."
5. London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and by Henry Mayhew (1851)
"I can tuni out toggery of every description very slap up, at the following low
... Slap up Velveteen Togs, lined with the same, 1 pound 1 quarter and a peg. ..."
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