swack-up

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

UK c. 1860s. Used at Christ's Hospital School, Sussex.

Noun[edit]

swack-up (plural swack-ups)

(dated, British, school slang) A lie; a falsehood.

Synonyms[edit]

See also Thesaurus:lie

References[edit]

Farmer, John Stephen (1900) The Public School Word-Book‎^[1], London: Hirshfeld Brothers, page 240
Eric Partridge (1984) Paul Beale, editor, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English […] , 8th edition, New York: Macmillan

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