shpiel

Noun (1)

spiel (countable and uncountable, plural spiels)

1. A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade.
   • I'd love to be there with a real pretty spiel / But three little words can explain how I feel1910, Irving Berlin, “Dear Mayme, I Love You”
2. An early form of rap music.
   • Watt gets his turn on the mic too, delivering an amusingly disjointed rap (following Minutemen tradition, he calls it a spiel) on "Me & You, Remembering."1991, Ira A. Robbins, The Trouser Press Record Guide, Howell Book House, →ISBN

Noun (2)

spiel (plural spiels)

1. A curling tournament.
   • The portion of ice set apart for a curling spiel was called the lead, rank, or rink (by which last name it is still described), and as it was then shorter than it is now — its ordinary length being 30 yards1890, John Kerr, History of curling ... and fifty years of the Royal Caledonian curling club

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