snazzual
adj.— «Snazzual—I’m going to L.A. on business next month, and it involves attending an event, so I asked my boss, Paul, to advise me on how to dress. “Snazzual,” he replied, and a word was born. (It’s better than “downtown formal,” which always puzzled me because it seems to mean wearing a hot pink prom dress from 1990 with a trucker hat and cowboy boots.)» —“New Words And Phrases” by Lindsay Robertson Lindsayism (New York City) Nov. 12, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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