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splurchase

noun

Etymology

Blend of splurge + purchase.

  1. derived from pro-
  2. derived from purchacer
  3. inherited from purchasen
  4. compounded as splurchase — “splurge + purchase”

Definitions

  1. 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.

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