splash out

phrasal verb

splashed out; splashing out; splashes out

British, informal

: to spend a lot of money

If you really want to splash out, let's go to dinner and a show in town.

We can't afford to splash out that much money for luxuries.

Examples of splash out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And the company splashed out hundreds of millions of dollars this time last year to grab rights for some NBA games, including some that will air only on Peacock each week. —David Bloom, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025

Icelanders tend to splash out after payday, meaning that the first weekend of every month gets especially rowdy. —New York Times, 24 July 2025

Netflix clearly believes in the movie, splashing out what is potentially the second most-ever paid domestically for any foreign-language film. —Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 26 May 2025

Brighton & Hove Albion were the second-biggest spenders behind Chelsea in Europe’s five top leagues last summer, splashing out almost £200million ($258m) on nine new signings for Fabian Hurzeler’s first season as head coach. —Andy Naylor, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025

Rhymes for splash out

• about
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout
• closeout
• cutout
• devout
• dropout