spree

Noun

spree (plural sprees)

1. (in-compounds) Uninhibited activity.
   • spending spree
   • Then all three major builders were called upon to deliver 105 Berkshires before the buying spree was over.1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam’s Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 27
2. (dated) A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic.
   • Tradition says she spent the last two years of her life in the strange den I have been speaking of, after having indulged herself in one final, triumphant and satisfying spree.1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), chapter XXI, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 205
   • It would be a long time before he could be like the majority of these men of the road, who roamed until the hunger for drink and for women mastered them, and then went to work with a purpose in mind, and stopped when they had the price of a spree.1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter XXII, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC, page 262

   Synonyms:

   carousal

Verb

spree (third-person singular simple present sprees, present participle spreeing, simple past and past participle spreed)

1. (intransitive, rare) To engage in a spree.
   • And I never spreed with the fellows as a student any more than I had enjoyed myself with the lads in the playground.1892, Leonard Merrick, chapter V, in The Man Who Was Good, published 1921

   Synonyms:

   carouse

Proper noun capitalized: Spree

IPA/ʃpɹeɪ/

Spree

1. A river in Germany that flows through Lusatia and into Berlin, where it flows into the Havel.