Spree
[spriː] or [spri]
Definition
(noun.) a brief indulgence of your impulses.
(verb.) engage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as when shopping.
Checker: Reginald--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic; a carousal.
Typed by Katie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Colloquial.] [1]. Carousal, revel, revelry, revelling, jollification, bacchanals, saturnalia, debauch, compotation, wassail, orgies, carouse, cups, drinking bout.[2]. Row, riot, disturbance, SHINDY.
Typist: Susan
Definition
n. a merry frolic: a drunken bout.—v.i. to carouse.
Typist: Sam
Examples
- I must, or 'twould be very unlike me--the first in every spree that's going! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The door opens right upon the front sitting-room, where the spree's going on. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She car's de marks o' dat ar spree yet. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Oh, it's a great spree, said Dick cheerfully, who was Gurt's companion in the march. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Typist: Michael