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slap-up

slap-up adjective: excellent, first-class.

Adjective

slap-up (comparative more slap-up, superlative most slap-up)

  1. (informal) 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.1840, M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Paris Sketch Book, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC
    • 'D'ye know a slap-up sort of button, when you see it?' said the youth. 'Don't look at mine, if you ain't a judge, because these lions' heads was made for men of men of taste: not snobs.'1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC

slap-up meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

slap-up in Tamil

புத்தம் புதுப்பாணி சார்ந்த, நாட்பாணியான

slap-up in Malayalam

sumptuous, lavish, elaborate
വിഭവസമൃദ്ധമായ, അത്യാഡംബരപൂർവ്വമായ, നിറവുള്ള, മൃഷ്ടാന്നമായ, ചതുർവ്വിധ, എല്ലാ വിഭവങ്ങളോടും കൂടിയ

Examples of slap-up in a sentence

  • "You take me somewhere where we can get a regular slap-up lunch.1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage:
  • If you add the cost of occasional chartered taxis, souvenirs, a splurge every now and then on a slap-up meal or a mid-range hotel[…]2003, Anthony Ham, Paul Greenway, Damien Simonis, Jordan:

Forms of slap-up

comparativemore slap-up
superlativemost slap-up

Questions about slap-up

What does slap-up mean?
Slap-up means excellent, first-class.
What is slap-up in Tamil?
Slap-up in Tamil is புத்தம் புதுப்பாணி சார்ந்த, நாட்பாணியான. See Slap-up meaning in Tamil.
How do you use slap-up in a sentence?
"You take me somewhere where we can get a regular slap-up lunch.
What part of speech is slap-up?
Slap-up is an adjective.

Words near slap-up in the dictionary

  1. slap-bang shops
  2. slap-down
  3. slap-downs
  4. slap-happy
  5. slap-headed
  6. slap-up
  7. slapable
  8. slapback
  9. slapbacks
  10. slapdash
  11. slapdashed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: slap-up (page history and authors); slap-up (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); slap-up (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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