单词 | slap-dab |
释义 | slap-dabadv. North American dialect and colloquial. = slap-bang adv. (see also quot. 1895). Cf. smack-dab adv. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [adverb] > headlong swireforthc825 a-randounc1380 headlya1425 headlongsc1540 eavelong1567 headlong1576 rank1590 headlongly1595 precipitously1626 neck-break1631 precipitantly1656 precipitately1728 precipitatedly1770 torrentially1882 slap-dab1886 the world > space > place > position or situation > [adverb] > exactly (in a certain position) righta1225 meet1543 plumb1701 spang1843 smack-dab1892 bung1899 bang1924 slap-dab1949 slap-bang1963 1886 Turf, Field & Farm XLII. 174/3 He was goin' that fas' he run slap-dab agin me afo' he seed me. 1895 Dial. Notes 1 399 Slap-dab.., violently or awkwardly. ‘He rushed in slap-dab and broke things.’ 1949 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xi. 11 It jumped slap-dab in the middle. 1973 Victorian (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 1 Aug. 1/1 It occurred slap dab in the middle of what is now Centennial Square. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adv.1886 |
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