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Splurge

noun

An ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.).

Any act of immoderate indulgence. Synonyms: binge, orgy. "An emotional binge" , "A splurge of spending"

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"Splurge" Quotes from Famous Books

... having money enough to stay at the St. Francis, and to dine there and to wear smart clothes there that makes people step out and act sure of themselves. Even when they can't afford it, and their stay there is a splurge or an outing, they act just as sure and stepping. And as for the people to whom the St. Francis is but an incident they act sure because ...

— Vignettes of San Francisco • Almira Bailey

... You've got to be trained up to it or you're sure to fail. Suppose a man who knew nothing about the grocery trade suddenly went into the business and tried to conduct it according to his own ideas. Wouldn't he make a mess of it? He might make a splurge for a while, as long as his money lasted, but his store would soon be empty. It's just the same with a reformer. He hasn't been brought up in the difficult business of politics and he makes a mess of it ...

— Plunkitt of Tammany Hall • George Washington Plunkitt

... a splurge," said Jimmy; "sooner or later everybody splurges—shows off! Meshach's jest spilin' with money and he must have a splurge—two hosses and a nigger. If it ain't a splurge I can't tell what ails ...

— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend

... that dates back past the Spanish War. I reckon 'Snake' Murphy—he tends bar for Johnny the Greek, who runs this honkatonk—he's one of 'em. Banker's another. You remember when them Wall Street guys hired 'Panamint Charlie' Wantage to splurge East in a private car scatterin' double eagles all the way and hoorayin' about the big mine ...

— Louisiana Lou • William West Winter

... look here, I won't tell you what I know and how I know it, but you can take my word that I know I do know. You plunge in copper right off, without saying a word to anybody or makin' any splurge, and here—" ...

— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson

... who delighted to exercise her presidential dignities. "We are straying far from the subject in hand—to adapt the words of our beloved Latin professor. Betty Wales was going to tell us how the 'Merry Hearts' could go out with a splurge." ...

— Betty Wales Senior • Margaret Warde

Words linked to "Splurge" : squander, show off, ware, swank, flaunt, ostentate, flash, fling, pampering, binge, humoring, waste, indulgence, ostentation, orgy, fanfare, indulging, consume