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Definition of Slapjack
1. n. A flat batter cake cooked on a griddle; a flapjack; a griddlecake.
Definition of Slapjack
1. Noun. (US dialect) A type of pancake, or flapjack ¹
2. Noun. A simple card game similar to snap ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slapjack
1. a pancake [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slapjack
Literary usage of Slapjack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1846)
"found, there the slapjack springs up by his side. *It is just as hot, and light,
and beautiful, in Washington, as it is in Boston. ..."
2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1846)
"found, there the slapjack springs up by his side. It is just as hot, and light,
and beautiful, in Washington, as it is in Boston. ..."
3. Hunt's Merchants' Magazine by Freeman Hunt (1846)
"Seeing that John Bull and the frog-eating Frenchman are utter strangers to the
superior luxury and beauty of a well manufactured slapjack, and cannot pos- ..."
4. Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne): A Biography and Bibliography by Don Carlos Seitz (1919)
"But, poor man! he's eaten his last slapjack! Not another solitary slapjack will
that poor drowned man never eat!" A tear glistened in the worthy widow's eye ..."
5. Detailed Minutiæ of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 by Carlton McCarthy (1899)
"Perhaps some dainty fellow prefers the more imposing " slapjack. ... About the
time the last scrap of " slapjack " and the last spoonful of " slosh " are ..."
6. Entertaining Anecdotes from Every Available Source by James Baird McClure (1879)
"... who was third," said Mr. Thompson, hastily, "I think her forte above all others
was in the accomplishment of the cake known as slapjack. ..."
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