slap-happy

adjective

1. cheerfully irresponsible or careless
2. dazed or giddy from or as if from repeated blows; punch-drunk

Example Sentences

Although the body is physically exhausted, the brain feels slap-happy, loopy and almost giddy.

From Science Daily

Even amid the show’s freewheeling anachronisms and slap-happy vulgarities, Catherine — despite Peter’s warning, “You will never win, you’ll just be in pain” — sets out to stage a palace coup, bringing succor to the brutalized serfs and Peter’s abused army.

From Los Angeles Times

Either because he was slap-happy or because he likes pulling pins from grenades, Cogshell also threw an unexpected name in from the yet-to-be-screened “Emancipation”: Will Smith.

From Los Angeles Times

This movie, which Eichner co-wrote with Nicholas Stoller, talks a pretty good game, but it also hopes you’ll be sufficiently disarmed by its scabrous wit and R-rated, slap-happy sex scenes to forgive — and maybe even love — its final swerve into happily-ever-after uplift.

From Los Angeles Times

"She had to maintain that posture otherwise it all got slap-happy and before you knew it you would have had people slapping you on the back. There had to be this mystique. Without that there was no point."

From BBC

Related Words

• befuddled
• bewildered
• dazed
• giddy
• groggy
• puzzled
• queasy
• shaky
• tipsy
• unsteady
• wobbly