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asap; ASAP
- as soon as possible US, 1955
Originally military; either spoken as an acronym spelt out and stressed or vocalised as ‘A-sap’ in the US, ‘assap’ in the UK. - Let’s finish this thing off A-sap. — Christopher Brookmyre, Not the End of the World, p. 245, 1998
- Mr Hadden wants you back at base, Scoop. Like pronto. Asap. Etc. — David Peace, Nineteen Seventy-Four, p. 78, 1999
- You wanted to get down to doing the in-bed, on-the-floor, in-the-bath stuff a.s.a.p. — John Williams, Cardiff Dead, p. 31, 2000
- as slowly as possible CANADA
Facetious, bitter variant on “as soon as possible”. - I am working ASAP – as slowly as possible. I got the pink slip yesterday. — Toronto Globe and Mail, p. D12, 3 August 2002
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