slapdash
Plural: slapdashes
Adjective Satellite
- marked by great carelessness
- "slapdash work"
Adverb
- in a careless or reckless manner
- "the shelves were put up slapdash"
- directly
Adj
- Produced or carried out hastily; haphazard; careless.
Adv
- In a hasty or careless manner.
- Directly, right there; slap-bang.
- With a slap; all at once; slap.
Verb
- To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast.
Noun
- Hasty and careless work; done without thought.
Examples
- His SLAPDASH play in Words With Friends cost him the game, as he left a triple open.
- to slapdash a wall
- to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall
- Van Eyck signed his portrait of the Arnolfinis slapdash in the center of the painting.
Origin / Etymology
From slap + dash. First attested in the late 17th century, meaning "careless".
Synonyms
bang, bolt, haphazard, slam-bang, slap, slipshod, sloppy, smack, carelessly, directly, haphazardly, hastily
Scrabble Score: 14
slapdash: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordslapdash: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
slapdash: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary