Slapdash

Definition: Slapdash

Slapdash

Adjective

1. Marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship".

Adverb

1. In a slapdash manner; "the shelves were put up slapdash".

2. (informal) directly; "he ran bang into the pole"; "ran slap into her".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "slapdash" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Slapdash

Haste

Hastily, precipitately; Adjective: helter-skelter, hurry-skurry, holus-bolus; slapdash, slap-bang; full-tilt, full drive; heels over head, head and shoulders, headlong, a corps perdu.

Worthlessness

Cheap, shoddy; slapdash.

Crosswords: Slapdash

Books

• Slapdash Alterations: How to Recycle Your Wardrobe (reference)

• Slapdash Cooking (reference)

• Slapdash Decorating (reference)

• Slapdash sewing (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "slapdash": slapdash work. Additional references.

Albanian

shkel-e-shko (careless, slap bang), pa kujdes (carelessly, jauntily), nxitimthi (hastily, headlong, hurriedly, pell mell), i nxituar (cursory, hasty, headstrong, heady, hot-blooded, hot-headed, hurried, imprudent, precipitant, premature, previous, rash, reckless). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كيفما اتفق (hit or miss), ‏متهور (audacious, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, brash, careless, daredevil, daredevilry, desperate, devil may care, excessive, extravagant, foolhardy, harum scarum, hasty, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-headed, immaterial, impetuous, impish, imprudent, impulsive, inconsiderate, light-headed, madcap, precipitate, precipitous, rash, reckless, temerarious, too hasty, unrestrained, unwary), ‏تسرع (haste, hastiness, play fast and loose, precipitate, precipitation, rashness, rough and ready, run, scurry), ‏عمل بتسرع, ‏بتسرع (precipitately, rashly), ‏بدون عناية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

както дойде (haphazard, helter-skelter, in a happy-go-lucky way), небрежно (slack), небрежен (careless, casual, floppy, heedless, lax, loose, neglectful, neglige, negligent, perfunctory, ragged, raunchy, regardless, remiss, skimpy, slack, slipshod, slipslop, sloppy, slovenly, thoughtless, unheeding, untidy), бърз (agile, brisk, dapper, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, forward, hasty, hurried, light-heeled, lively, natty, nippy, precipitate, pressing, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, ready, rush, sharp, slippy, smart, spanking, speedy, sweeping, time-saving, urgent, wing-footed), прибързан (brash, hasty, headlong, ill-advised, impetuous, light hearted, overbold, precipitate, precipitatious, premature, previous, rash, sudden, unthinking, untimely, unwary). (various references)

Czech

ledabylý (careless, casual, cavalier, lax, remiss, untidy). (various references)

Farsi 

پوشش تگرگی , ناگهان (Aback, Abrupt, Bolt, Sudden, Unaware, Unawares), کاری که سرسری انجام شود, غفلتا (Unaware, Unawares), عینا (Exact, Just, Plumb, Smackdab, Very), عجول وبی دقت , بی پروا (Adventurer, Audacious, Confident, Daredevil, Dashing, Harebrained, Headlong, Heady, Heedless, Impetuous, Inconsiderate, Rash, Reckless, Unadvised, Unscrupulous). (various references)

Finnish

huolimaton (careless, heedless, negligent, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly). (various references)

French

sans soin, précipitation, insouciant, impétuosité, fait � la va-vite, faire � la va-vite (slur), � la va-vite. (various references)

German

schludrig (shoddy, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly), hopplahop, flüchtig (brief, casual, cursorily, cursory, desultory, elusive, ephemeral, fleeting, fleetingly, flighty, fugitive, fugitively, momentary, non-permanent, passing, perfunctory, quick, sketchily, sketchy, slight, summarily, volatile, volatilely, voltile). (various references)

Greek 

βιαστικόσ (cursory, hasty, hurried, precipitate, previous), φουριόζοσ (impatient, slap dash). (various references)

Hebrew 

מרושל (careless, frowzy, negligent, perfunctory, slack, slipshod, slob, sloppy, slovenly, unkempt), פזיז (careless, fickle, harebrained, hasty, headlong, impetuous, impulsive, nimble, precipitous, rash, slaphappy). (various references)

Italian

raffazzonato (scratch, slaphappy), negligente (careless, inadvertent, inattentive, lax, negligent, remiss, slack, slaphappy), impetuoso (boisterous, dashing, forceful, headlong, heady, hot, hot-headed, impetuous, impulsive, rapid, slaphappy, sweeping, vehement, violent), frettolosamente (hastily). (various references)

Manx

moal-chooishagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

apdashslay.(various references)

Portuguese

sem cuidado, impetuoso (dashing, fiery, forcible, furious, headlong, heady, hot, hot-brained, hot-headed, hot-tempered, impetuous, lawless, licentious, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, riotous, tearing, tempestuous, vehement, violent, volcanic), descuidado (brainless, carefree, careless, casual, harebrained, heedless, inadvertent, incautious, light-minded, mindless, neglectful, negligent, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, remiss, scatterbrained, sloppy, thoughtless, unheeding, unmindful, unthinking, untidy, unwary), descuidadamente (blunt), � toa (adrift, broadcast). (various references)

Russian 

стремительно безалаберный, необдуманный (ill-considered, inconsiderate, thoughtless, unweighed), необдуманно (lightly, unadvisedly), поспешный (hasty, heady, hurried, hurry, premature, rash, rough and ready), поспешно (hastily, post, speedily). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

na brzu ruku (hurriedly, impromptu, offhand, offhanded, offhandedly). (various references)

Spanish

despreocupado (breezy, carefree, devil may care, disregarded, happy go lucky, nonchalant, slovenly, unconcerned), de brocha gorda. (various references)

Swedish

slarvigt (anyhow, anyway, carelessly, off hand, offhand, offhandedly), slarvig (careless, down at heel, fribble, frivolous, inattentive, off hand, offhand, offhanded, shoddy, sloppy, slovenly, slutish, untidy), hafsigt, hafsig (down at heel, slipshod, slovenly), burdus (abrupt, abruptly, bluff, blunt, brusque). (various references)

Turkish

umursamaz (conscience-proof, devil may care, disregardful, harum scarum, insensible, lax, light, neglectful, negligent, reckless, thickskinned, unconcerned, unheedful), lakayt (careless, indifferent, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, reckless), düşüncesiz (blind, blindfold, brusque, careless, flighty, freewheeling, gauche, half-baked, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heady, ill-advised, ill-judged, imprudent, impulsive, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, mindless, out of turn, rash, reckless, tactless, thoughtless, unadvised, unmindful, unreflecting, unthinking, wanton, without tact, witless), baştan savma (evasive, patchily, patchy, perfunctory, run around, salvo, sketchy, slipshod, slovenly). (various references)

Ukrainian

сяк-так (higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger), халтура (bungling, hackwork, potboiler, quickie, snobbery, trash), квапливий (hasteful, hurried, precipitant, speedy), неохайність (dirtiness, grime, grubbiness, negligence, untidiness), неохайний (chatty, dowdy, frowzy, frumpish, grubby, negligent, scruffy, slattern, slatternly, slobbery, sloven, slovenly, soppy, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt, untidy), необачний (harebrained, hasteful, hasty, headlong, hot-brained, ill-advised, imprudent, overbold, over-hasty, precipitant, slap bang), недбалість (backwardness, carelessness, laxity, looseness, neglect, negligence, nonchalance, offhandedness, oscitancy, oscitation, preterition, pretermission), навально. (various references)

Vietnamese 

h� nh động bừa, công việc l� m bừa, công việc l� m ẩu, ẩu; bừa, được đâu hay đó; liều lĩnh. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "slapdash": slapdashes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Slapdash" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sardasht. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: alphas, pashas, salads, salpas, splash.

-3 letters: alpha, dahls, dhals, hadal, hasps, pasha, plash, salad, salpa, salps, salsa, shads, slaps, slash.

-4 letters: aahs, aals, alas, alps, asps, dahl, dahs, dals, daps, dash, dhal, haps, hasp, lads, laps, lash, lass, pads, pals, pash, pass, salp, sals, saps, sash, shad, slap, spas.

-5 letters: aah, aal, aas, ads.

+2 letters: handclasps, slapdashes.

+3 letters: splashboard.

+4 letters: splashboards.

+5 letters: cardinalships.