SLAP-UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slap-up mean? 

• SLAP-UP (adjective)
  The adjective SLAP-UP has 1 sense:

1. very good

  Familiarity information: SLAP-UP used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLAP-UP (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very good

Synonyms:

bang-up; bully; corking; cracking; dandy; great; groovy; keen; neat; nifty; not bad; old; peachy; slap-up; smashing; swell

Context example:

we had a grand old time

Similar:

good (having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

I know you for what you are, Sir Charles, and that is a noble, slap-up Corinthian.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“He’s a real slap-up Corinthian, by his dress; and he means what he says, or else I ain’t no judge of a man.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You’re not drinkin’ black-jack in a boozin’ ken, but you are meetin’ noble, slap-up Corinthians, and it’s for you to behave as such.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)