slap-happy

Example Sentences

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Although the body is physically exhausted, the brain feels slap-happy, loopy and almost giddy.

From Science Daily

Even amid the show’s freewheeling anachronisms and slap-happy vulgarities, Catherine — despite Peter’s warning, “You will never win, you’ll just be in pain” — sets out to stage a palace coup, bringing succor to the brutalized serfs and Peter’s abused army.

From Los Angeles Times

Either because he was slap-happy or because he likes pulling pins from grenades, Cogshell also threw an unexpected name in from the yet-to-be-screened “Emancipation”: Will Smith.

From Los Angeles Times

"She had to maintain that posture otherwise it all got slap-happy and before you knew it you would have had people slapping you on the back. There had to be this mystique. Without that there was no point."

From BBC

Granted, if you enjoy Isaac's aptitude for physical comedy, consider yourself amply served by the heart of that episode, specifically slap-happy mountain road car chase involving pastries and lots of frightened yelling.

From Salon