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Answer for the clue "Careless mates upset by crash ", 8 letters:
slapdash

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Word definitions for slapdash in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The program is just a slapdash mix of old, tired ideas.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship" [syn: haphazard , slipshod , sloppy ] adv. in a careless or reckless manner; "the shelves were put up slapdash" [syn: ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Done hastily; haphazard; careless. adv. 1 In a hasty or careless manner. 2 directly, right there; slap-bang. 3 With a slap; all at once; slap. v (context colloquial English) To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast. ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from slap (v.) + dash (v.). As an adjective, "dashing, offhand, careless," from 1792. As a noun, "rough-coat, coarse plaster," from 1796.

Usage examples of slapdash.

Trees grew out of their sides at slapdash angles, curving upwards, supported by vast buttress roots.

It could have been—probably was—just that smelly mullet-head with a slapdash plan and a lot of nerve.

Terekhov picked out the lucky Tomcat by the slapdash flying style of its pilot and turned to line up on him.

So the play became an incongruous mongrel slapdashed out of contradictory elements.