Slapdash
adverb
1.
in a hasty, haphazard manner:
He assembled the motor slapdash.
adjective
2.
hasty and careless; offhand:
a slapdash answer.
adverb
1.
in a careless, hasty, or haphazard manner
adjective
2.
careless, hasty, or haphazard
noun
3.
slapdash activity or work
4.
another name for roughcast (sense 1)
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- Slap-dashing
noun 1. slab dashing.
- Slaphappy
adjective, slaphappier, slaphappiest. Informal. 1. severely befuddled; punch-drunk: a slaphappy boxer. 2. agreeably giddy or foolish: After a martini he was slaphappy. 3. cheerfully irresponsible: a slaphappy crowd.
- Slap-happy
adjective, slaphappier, slaphappiest. Informal. 1. severely befuddled; punch-drunk: a slaphappy boxer. 2. agreeably giddy or foolish: After a martini he was slaphappy. 3. cheerfully irresponsible: a slaphappy crowd. adjective (informal) -happier, -happiest 1. cheerfully irresponsible or careless 2. dazed or giddy from or as if from repeated blows; punch-drunk slapdash
- Slaphead
noun 1. (derogatory, slang) a bald person noun a balding person, a person with a shaved head Word Origin from one’s being able to slap the head directly Usage Note derogatory slang
- Slap in the face
A sharp rebuke or rebuff, as in Being criticized in front of my staff was a real slap in the face, or We thought it quite a slap in the face when they returned our letter unopened. The figurative use of this term, which can also refer to a literal blow, dates from the late […]