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A streak that feels like freedom until someone checks the receipts.
means A spree is a burst of unrestrained activity — buying, partying, or otherwise indulging — in rapid succession before anyone stops to count the cost.
from Origin genuinely murky. It surfaces in Scottish/English dialect around the 1800s, possibly linked to the Scots word 'spreath' meaning cattle raid or plunder (itself from Gaelic 'spréidh,' cattle) — which would tie 'spree' to the old romance of reckless, roving mischief. But etymologists aren't fully certain, so treat the cattle-raid link as a plausible cousin rather than a proven parent.
- origin
- maybe from Scots spreath, meaning cattle raid
- spending version
- dopamine now, bank statement regret later
- killing version
- the same word, radically worse outcome
- defining feature
- momentum mistaken for control