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splurchase

splurchase noun: a spur-of-the-moment purchase.

Noun

splurchase (plural splurchases)

  1. (slang) A spur-of-the-moment purchase.
    • And there is consensus that impulsive buying is on the rise, thanks to e-commerce and TV home-shopping, neither of which requires us to change out of our sweatpants and leave the house to make a splurchase.2009, Lee Eisenberg, Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What, Free Press, →ISBN, page 248

Synonyms of splurchase

Forms of splurchase

pluralsplurchases

Origin of splurchase

Blend of splurge + purchase.

Questions about splurchase

What does splurchase mean?
Splurchase means a spur-of-the-moment purchase.
What part of speech is splurchase?
Splurchase is a noun.
What is the plural of splurchase?
The plural of splurchase is splurchases.

Words near splurchase in the dictionary

  1. splunge
  2. splunged
  3. splunges
  4. splunging
  5. splunk
  6. splurchase
  7. splurchases
  8. splurge
  9. splurged
  10. splurger
  11. splurgers

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