swack-up

See also: swack up

English

Etymology

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

Noun

swack-up (plural swack-ups)

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

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:lie

References

• 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