tasty

tasty
1) adj
British
attractive, desirable, smart. An all-pur-pose term of approbation, used in work-ing-class London speech for many years and, more specifically, as a fashionable word among the young in the late 1970s and 1980s. a tasty geezer
► Love the threads. Really tasty.
2) n
British
an alcoholic drink.
A specific applica-tion of the wider notion of something desirable, from the popular cockney adjective.
► I know a pub that does late tasties.' (Only Fools and Horses, British TV com-edy series, 1989)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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  • tasty — savory, sapid, *palatable, appetizing, toothsome, flavorsome, relishing Antonyms: bland …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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