spree

noun

ˈsprē How to pronounce spree (audio)
Definition of spreenext
1
as in fling
a time or instance of carefree fun went on a spending spree

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2
as in binge
a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking after a lifetime of self-destructive sprees, the poet Dylan Thomas died at last of an alcoholic overdose

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Recent Examples of spree The video opens with Itami dragging a half-conscious Burke by his legs and delivering him to a young couple on a crime spree. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026 Three people are dead and a fourth is wounded after a shooting spree at a rural home in Caswell County, according to investigators in North Carolina. — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 5 Aug. 2026 For Jed Hoyer, trading Triple-A outfielder Brett Bateman and Class-A infielder Ty Southisene in Sunday night’s deal with the Blue Jays was only the beginning of a buying spree. — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026 Add things like purging closets and cleaning windows to your calendar on a regular basis, rather than having one big cleaning spree every spring. — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 4 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for spree
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spree
  1. fling
  2. binge
  3. lark
  4. drunk
  5. romp
  6. bender
  7. idyll
  8. bust
Noun
  • The 30-year-old actress is best known for her role as Kendall, the former fling of Garrett Graham (Belmont Cameli) in the Prime Video romantic drama series Off Campus.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Puppy love and summer flings abound when Tom Holland's Peter Parker goes on a European vacation to spend quality time with his crush MJ (Zendaya) and instead gets thrown into a few international incidents.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of fling
Noun
  • The show nonetheless takes an unexpected direction that makes for an enjoyably low-key binge.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
  • But unlike prior seasons, this time​ the series drops all episodes at once, giving the franchise its first true binge release after two seasons of weekly rollouts.
    — Veronica Villafañe, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Definition of binge
Noun
  • Feeling slightly out of place amid this crowd is Annie, here on a lark to appease her sister.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • That includes a bird-calling scene that sees the duo strolling through the forest and offering up their own spin on the calls of thrushes and larks.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 June 2026
Definition of lark
Noun
  • Then she, once again, intimates that Shannon is a drunk, which makes Shannon storm off into the night.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
  • During games, Spiezio was drinking alcohol out of water bottles in the dugout and was playing baseball drunk.
    — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of drunk
Noun
  • Superhero movies weren't dominating the box office, and tapping the Evil Dead director for a PG-13 action romp that had been in development hell for 25 years wasn't guaranteed to work out.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 29 July 2026
  • The critter gained numerous fans during its brief romp around Comerica, with the crowd booing after its capture and again when Miller called for a round of applause for the ground crew after the ordeal.
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2026
Definition of romp
Noun
  • At first, everyone assumes Ji-Seok is on an extended bender or hiding from the cops.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Thinking there was a fender-bender in the parking lot, Frederick and Bassett walked outside, heard screams and looked across the parking lot where a man was stabbing a woman in the front seat of a car.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of bender
Noun
  • The heckle briefly punctured the idyll at CicLAvia, the long-running open-streets bike that brings thousands of cyclists to different LA neighborhoods multiple times each year.
    — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 29 July 2026
  • The walls had a nominal utility as fences for the dairy herd that was milked in the great white cow barn, but this was only ever a Gilded Age fantasy of the rustic idyll.
    — Matt Seaton, The Atlantic, 19 July 2026
Definition of idyll
Noun
  • And yet each leg up in the market heightens the risk of more Situational Awareness-like squeezes, and of individualized distress giving way to a broader bust.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The novelty vending machines mold souvenir sculptures — a train car, a gorilla, a bust of Abraham Lincoln — in under a minute, filling a two-sided mold with hot plastic, then hollowing it out with compressed air.
    — Juliet Bennett Rylah, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026
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