What does one swell foop mean?

one swell foop

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.03 in modern English

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"Only one meal a week is required, thus doing away, at one swell foop, with cooks, scullions, stewards, butlers, waiters and other tip-extractors."
"You have to pull it in, in one swell foop!."
"If I can’t quite see how to do it all in one swell foop, I fall back on the principles of lazy programming: [...]"

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