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ˈslap-happy, a. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
Also slaphappy.
[f. slap n.1 + -happy.]
1. Dazed, punch-drunk; dizzy (with happiness).
1936J. Tully Bruiser x. 89 A slap-happy bum. 1938Newsweek 23 May 22/1 A sample [of talk] designed to knock philologists slap-happy. 1940Detective Tales Apr. 8/1 He was a little slap-happy from a decade of slug⁓festing. 1947[see punch-drunk a.]. 1973Maclean's Mag. (Toronto) Feb. 32/2 It was so exhilaratingly ludicrous..that I felt quite slaphappy.
2. Carefree, casual; careless, thoughtless, irresponsible.
1937N.Y. Herald Tribune 28 Aug. 14/1 After the dust had settled he and Ernest Hemingway, the slaphappy litterateur, toured Spain together. 1940Nation 6 Apr. 448/1 Unless production [of television programmes] is slap-happy, the costs promise to compare with those of Broadway shows. 1951R. Hoggart Auden iii. 78 This is Auden's characteristic ‘Love’ again, allied to his leftism—a lyrical but vague coda to a slap-happy knocking-down of many old guys. 1958E. H. Clements Uncommon Cold i. 26 The irresponsible slap-happy manners of extreme modern youth. 1977Meanjin XXXVI. i. 131 The real point is that Sydney—slap-happy and extroverted— is the favoured haunt of the cultural bureaucrats.
Hence slap-ˈhappily adv., slap-ˈhappiness.
1958S. Hyland Who goes Hang? xiv. 63 The impression of boisterous slap-happiness. 1968M. Bragg Without City Wall ii. xxvii. 249 Spray the world with froth of slap-happiness. 1969Guardian 20 Oct. 22/2 He is unlikely to display himself so slap-happily before those surging crowds. |