slap-happy

A form of slaphappy — Incoherent from being struck; punch drunk.

Meanings

adjectiveslap-happy (comparative more slap-happy, superlative most slap-happy)

comparative more slap-happy · superlative most slap-happy

  1. alternativeAlternative form of slaphappy.

    Women's rhythm of life, her monthly renewal with her patroness the Moon, is the most important thing in her existence. It is her stability in a world made mad for ever by man's wretched alternating between the tension of sex-hunger and the slap-happy folly of indulgence.

    1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 145
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