slap-up

American  

[slap-uhp] / ˈslæpˌʌp /

adjective

British Informal.

1. excellent; first-rate.

   a slap-up do.

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slap-up British  

adjective

1. informal (prenominal) (esp of meals) lavish; excellent; first-class

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Etymology

Origin of slap-up

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

The custom Marni outfit also made eating the slap-up Brits dinner somewhat impractical.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2024

Donning a falsetto and a knowingly ludicrous suburban loverman persona, he hits on a girl working in a JCPenney department store, offering her a ride in his Hyundai and a slap-up meal.

From The Guardian • Jul. 2, 2020

You might wonder who'd pay enough for a slap-up meal and a good bottle of wine to buy a Spanish Civil War-era anarchist handbill from the streets of Barcelona.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2014

We stopped for a wee at that olde-worlde hotel in Cirencester's market square and – wow – there were the then high-flying Cardiff City strutters finishing their slap-up, meat‑and-two-veg, sit-down lunch.

From The Guardian • Jan. 5, 2011

Might not he quarter a countess's coat on his brougham along with the Jones arms, or, more slap-up still, have the two shields painted on the panels with the coronet over?

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace