• IPA: /spɹiː/

spree (plural sprees)

1. (in combination) Uninhibited activity.

   spending spree

2. (dated) A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic.

   Synonyms: carousal

   • 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXI, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC ↗, page 205 ↗:

     Tradition says she spent the last two years of her life in the strange den I have been speaking of, after having indulged herself in one final, triumphant, and satisfying spree.

   • 1905, Upton Sinclair, chapter XXII, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC ↗, page 262 ↗:

     It would be a long time before he could be like the majority of these men of the road, who roamed until the hunger for drink and for women mastered them, and then went to work with a purpose in mind, and stopped when they had the price of a spree.

• French: frénésie
• German: Spaß, Vergnügen
• Italian: orgia, frenesia, follia
• Russian: акти́вность

• German: Gelage, Trinkgelage
• Italian: baldoria, bisboccia, simposio, bagordo
• Portuguese: farra
• Russian: кутёж

spree (sprees, present participle spreeing; simple past and past participle spreed)

1. (intransitive, rare) To engage in a spree.

   Synonyms: carouse

• IPA: /ʃpɹeɪ/, /spɹeɪ/

1. A river in Germany that flows through Lusatia and into Berlin, where it flows into the Havel.

• French: Spree
• German: Spree
• Italian: Sprea
• Russian: Шпрее