splurge

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++splurge /splɜːdʒ $ splɜːrdʒ/ verb [intransitive, transitive] informal  SPEND MONEYto spend more money than you can usually afford 乱花钱，挥霍 SYN splash outsplurge (something) on something Within a couple of months, I’d splurged about £2,500 on clothes. 就在几个月时间里，我买衣服花掉了 2,500 英镑。► see thesaurus at buy —splurge noun [countable]→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

splurge• The 11 official sponsors are expected to splurge a further f lOOm between them on marketing.• If you want to splurge a little more, a compact-disc changer is available for $ 595.• Within a couple of months I'd splurged about £2,500 on all sorts of high-fashion clothes.• Canned salmon sold at eleven cents a can, and Aunt Pat splurged now and then and served fried salmon cakes.• We splurged on an expensive hotel in Chicago.• The best way is to work out a weekly budget and avoid the temptation to splurge out at the beginning of term.Origin splurge (1800-1900) Perhaps from splash + surge

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splurge
splurge /splɜːdʒ $ splɜːrdʒ/ verb [intransitive and transitive] informalto spend more money than you can usually afford
   SYN  splash out
    splurge (something) on something
    Within a couple of months, I’d splurged about £2,500 on clothes.
—splurge noun [countable]
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ buy to pay money for something so that you can own it: I’ve just bought a new car. | The painting was bought by a museum in New York.
   ▪ purchase formal to buy something, especially something large or expensive, in a business deal or by a legal contract: They purchased 5,000 acres of land.
   ▪ acquire formal to become the owner of something large or expensive such as property, a company, or a valuable object: In 2007 the business was acquired by a Dutch company. | Television companies were then allowed to acquire more stations.
   ▪ get especially spoken to buy something, especially ordinary things such as food, clothes, or things for your house: Did you remember to get some bread? | I never know what to get Dad for his birthday.
   ▪ snap something up informal to buy something immediately, especially because it is very cheap, or because you want it very much and you are worried that someone else might buy it first: Real estate in the area is being snapped up by developers.
   ▪ pick something up informal to buy something, especially something ordinary such as food or a newspaper, or something that you have found by chance and are pleased about owning: Could you pick up some milk on your way home? | It’s just a little thing I picked up when I was in Kathmandu.
   ▪ stock up to buy a lot of something you use regularly, because you may not be able to buy it later, or because you are planning to use more of it than usual: The supermarkets are full of people stocking up for the New Year’s holiday. | We always stock up on cheap wine when we go to France. | Before the blizzard, we stocked up on food.
   ▪ splash out British English informal, splurge American English informal to buy something you would not usually buy, because it is too expensive, in order to celebrate an event or make yourself feel good: Why don’t you splash out on a new dress for the party? | We splurged on an expensive hotel for the last night of the vacation.