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swell

adverb
 
 
/swel/ US old-fashioned informal

Definition

very well: Everything's going real swell.Informal words for goodGood, better and bestQuite good, or not very good
(Definition of swell adverb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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