swack-up

See also: swack up

English

Etymology

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

Noun

swack-up (plural swack-ups)

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

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:lie

References

Farmer, John Stephen (1900) The Public School Word-Book‎, London: Hirshfeld Brothers, page 240
Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 8th edition, 1984

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