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swack_up

swack up

See also: swack-up

English

Verb

swack up (third-person singular simple present swacks up, present participle swacking up, simple past and past participle swacked up)

  1. (dated, Britain, public school slang) To lie; to deceive; to take in.

Synonyms

  • See also Wikisaurus:deceive

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