Produced or carried out hastily; haphazard; careless.
They had seen Poland, and that was the sort of slovenly, slapdash place they were used to, but once across the German frontier they found everything—crops, roads, buildings—uncannily different.
In a hasty or careless manner.
To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast.
to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall
From slap + dash. First attested in the late 17th century, meaning "careless".
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Directly, right there; slap-bang.
Van Eyck signed his portrait of the Arnolfinis slapdash in the center of the painting.
With a slap; all at once; slap.
And yet, slap dash, is all again In every sinew, nerve, and vein; Runs here and there, like Hamlet's ghost