slap-dash

[slap-dash]

slap·dash

[slap-dash]
adverb
1.
in a hasty, haphazard manner: He assembled the motor slapdash.
adjective
2.
hasty and careless; offhand: a slapdash answer.

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Slap-dash is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.

Origin:
1670–80; slap1 (adv.) + dash1
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slap-dash definition


  1. mod.
    fast and careless. : I wish you hadn't done it in such a slap-dash fashion.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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