slapdash

[ slap-dash ]

adverb

1. in a hasty, haphazard manner:

   He assembled the motor slapdash.

adjective

1. hasty and careless; offhand:

   a slapdash answer.

slapdash

/ ˈslæpˌdæʃ /

adverb

1. in a careless, hasty, or haphazard manner

adjective

1. careless, hasty, or haphazard

noun

1. slapdash activity or work
2. See roughcast
   another name for roughcast

Word History and Origins

Origin of slapdash¹

1670–80; slap ¹ (adv.) + dash ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of slapdash¹

C17: from slap + dash ¹

Example Sentences

City staff said they don’t see any way around putting restauranteurs through a more intensive process to make their outdoor structures permanent and bring their slapdash structures up to code.

From Voice of San Diego

The signs on store windows telling us to keep six feet apart were slapdash and scrawled by hand.

From Washington Post

In 1975, sports broadcasting was a more slapdash operation compared to the modern era, when announcer assignments are made weeks, months or — in the case of the Super Bowl network rotation — even years in advance.

From Washington Post

While the recipe was fairly easy overall, good for late-night baking, dispersing the sticky, relatively scant batter throughout a bowl full of light popped corn was somewhat difficult — but even my slapdash efforts turned out pretty well.

From Eater

Unlike the slapdash nature of many blockchain projects launched in 2017, Polkadot has attracted elite computer scientists and its investors include funded by prominent venture capital firms, including Polychain Capital.

From Fortune

No matter how constitutionally suspect, how costly, how slapdash, or how disappointing a grand policy might be, well, they tried.

From The Daily Beast

To the uninitiated, it can seem all too random, slapdash, or disorienting.

From The Daily Beast

Because of the speed of its composition, it was a fairly slapdash piece of work.

From The Daily Beast

The risk with collage is that it can seem slapdash or myopic, its meaning opaque to anyone but the artist.

From The Daily Beast

Balzac wrote the stranger a slapdash of a letter, as he was always doing, and forgot the incident.

From Project Gutenberg

In such slapdash, inefficient fashion this young man conducted all his personal life.

From Project Gutenberg

The craftsman of Irish blood is likely to be a little slapdash in method, and he rarely stands near the top of his trade in skill.

From Project Gutenberg

It is too hurried and slapdash, and I may have quite different opinions after we have calmed down a bit.

From Project Gutenberg

I didna gae slapdash to them wi' our young bra' bridegroom, to gar them baud up the market.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• haphazard