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Definition: Slap-up |
Slap-upAdjective1. (informal) very good; "a bully pulpit"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "slap-up" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Slap-up Prime slap-up or slap-bang up. Very exquisite or dashing. Here slap is a playful synonym of dashing, and "up" is the Latin super, as in "superfine." The dress of a dandy or the equipage of an exquisite is "slap-up," "prime slap-up," or "slap-bang-up." "[The] more slap-up still have the shields painted on the panels with the coronet over."- Thackeray. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Slap-upSynonyms: bang-up (adj), bully (adj), corking (adj), cracking (adj), dandy (adj), great (adj), groovy (adj), keen (adj), neat (adj), nifty (adj), not bad(p) (adj), peachy (adj), smashing (adj), swell (adj). (additional references) |
| "Slap-up" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Slap-up" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "slap-up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 掴 (slap, slapped, Slapping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pazar (bang-up, baronial, gorgeous, luxurious, magnificent, opulent, prodigal, profuse, slap up, smashing, sumptuous), klassz (aces, bang-up, boss, classy, crackajack, crackerjack, dandy, divvy, elegant, hunky-dory, nifty, rattling, scrummy, scrumptious, smashing, stunning, swell, to be all aces, whopping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 석 때림 위로. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ap-upslay шикарный (chic, classy, deluxe, nobby, slap up, snazzy, stylish, swanky, swell). (various references) prima (first chop, first rate, first-rate, slap up, top-hole, topping), flott (classy, dashing, dripping, grease, high, lard, lardy, plush, posh, slap up, slick, smart, spanking, stylish, swanky). (various references) chiến (bang-up, bonzer, elegant, famous, famously, hunky-dory, magnificent, smashing, solid, spanking, super), bảnh (chic, knowing, sharp, spiffy, tony). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: palpus. | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-p-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: palps, pulps, pupal, pupas. | |
-2 letters: alps, laps, palp, pals, paps, plus, pula, pulp, puls, pupa, pups, salp, saul, slap, upas. | |
-3 letters: alp, als, asp, lap, las, pal, pap, pas, pul, pup, pus, sal, sap, sau, spa, sup, ups. | |
-4 letters: al, as, la, pa, up, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-p-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: appulse, papules, upleaps. | |
+2 letters: applauds, applause, appulses, papulose, platypus, supplant, supposal. | |
+3 letters: applauses, appliques, populaces, populates, pupilages, sparkplug, supplants, suppliant, supposals. | |
+4 letters: applauders, applesauce, curlpapers, platypuses, popularise, propagules, pupillages, sparkplugs, superplane, supplanted, supplanter, supplejack, suppliance, suppliants, supplicant, supplicate, supposable, supposably. | |
+5 letters: applesauces, depopulates, polyphagous, popularised, popularises, popularizes, populations, postnuptial, pourparlers, pseudopodal, repopulates, semipopular, superplanes, superplayer, supplanters, supplanting, supplejacks, suppliances, suppliantly, supplicants, supplicated, supplicates, supportable, unstoppable, unstoppably. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6C 61 70 2D 75 70 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01100001 01110000 00101101 01110101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l a p - u p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 0061 0070 002D 0075 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53786782158782 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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