slaphappy

slap·hap·py

[slap-hap-ee]
adjective, slap·hap·pi·er, slap·hap·pi·est. Informal.
1.
severely befuddled; punch-drunk: a slaphappy boxer.
2.
agreeably giddy or foolish: After a martini he was slaphappy.
3.
cheerfully irresponsible: a slaphappy crowd.

Origin:
1935–40; slap1 + happy

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slaphappy

adjective
1. cheerfully irresponsible; "carefree with his money"; "freewheeling urban youths"; "had a harum-scarum youth" [syn: carefree
2. dazed from or as if from repeated blows; "knocked silly by the impact"; "slaphappy with exhaustion" [syn: punch-drunk
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Slaphappy is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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