Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To indulge in an extravagant expense or luxury.
- intransitive verb To spend extravagantly or wastefully.
- noun An expensive indulgence; a spree.
- noun An extravagant display or large amount.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A blustering, noisy, or ostentatious demonstration, display, or effort.
- To make an ostentatious demonstration or display.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Slang, U.S. A blustering demonstration, or great effort; a great display.
- intransitive verb Slang, U.S. To make a great display in any way, especially in oratory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
gush , to flow or move in arush .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb indulge oneself
- verb be showy or ostentatious
- noun any act of immoderate indulgence
- noun an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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"The connotation of the term splurge is unpleasant.
Betty Wales Senior Margaret Warde
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Sometimes the splurge is worth it and in this case, the splurge knocks out the cheaper specials by a long shot.
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It's a common and simple principle, but it bears repeating for others: "Wait one week and see if the burning urge to splurge is there," wrote Al Viviano.
Getting a grip on finances is hard, but at least we're trying 2006
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This sort of splurge is a variant shopper's thrill.
Splurge Pans Out : Utensibility Meme Lindy 2005
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This sort of splurge is a variant shopper's thrill.
Toast: Lindy 2005
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You can’t beat 2 regular slices of plain cheese NY pizza (costing you under $5 at most places), and I’m still a huge fan of the the various 99 Cent Pizza places - but every once in a while a pizza splurge is in order.
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My splurge was a paperback copy of The Long Goodbye, which turned out to be my favorite Raymond Chandler book.
London & London Bas Bleu 2009
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My splurge was a paperback copy of The Long Goodbye, which turned out to be my favorite Raymond Chandler book.
Archive 2009-11-29 Bas Bleu 2009
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The opening pages, which introduce us to what Mahler called his "suns and planets revolving", could politely be described as a splurge, while the unleashing of the brass for the Accende lumen and Hostem repellas sections brought all the clarity of a herd of stampeding buffalo.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph David Fanning 2011
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It's a clear sign of the continuing evolution of video games when hot titles splurge on big mainstream media ads.
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