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What would American English speakers say to mean "slap-up dinner"?
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I don't have time to watch the whole video to find out when the hostess says "slap-up". A quick Google tells me it means something like "excellent". If so, we might say a great or fantastic dinner. Lots of more and less formal synonyms exist.
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The link below might provide some guidance to our AmE speakers.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/slap-up
I don't speak AmE, but I wonder if something like "a feast" or "a feast of a meal" might work.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/slap-up
I don't speak AmE, but I wonder if something like "a feast" or "a feast of a meal" might work.
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"A feast" works for me, maybe with an intensifier as in "a real feast" or "a hell of a feast". My wife and I are both drawing a blank on a slangier way to say it. Unsurprisingly, French has a word which may be a perfect translation: une bouffe.
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