What does splurge mean?

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What does splurge mean?

Answer 1

To spend excessively, often beyond ones means or needs.

If you couldn't pay your mortgage or rent, yet you bought a diamond tiara, you would be said to "splurge" on the tiara.

Splurge can also be used to describe an unusual use of money out of character for a person.

Some known for their thrifty money habits might be considered  splurging to go out to dinner  when there's food at home.

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Answer 2

splurge   [splurj]  

–verb (used without object)

1. to indulge oneself in some luxury or pleasure, esp. a costly one: They splurged on a trip to Europe.  

2. to show off.  

–verb (used with object) 3. to spend (money) lavishly or ostentatiously: He splurged thousands on the party.  

–noun 4. an ostentatious display, esp. an extravagantly expensive one.  

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[Origin: 1820–30, Americanism; perh. b. splash and surge]

—Related forms

splurg·i·ly, adverb

splurgy, adjective

—Synonyms 4. indulgence, spree.

Answer 3

To do something important or large like spending a lot of money on something.