splurchase

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Blend of splurge +‎ purchase.

Noun

splurchase (plural splurchases)

  1. A spur-of-the-moment purchase.
    • 2009, Lee Eisenberg, Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What, Free Press (2009), →ISBN, page 248:
      And there is consensus that impulsive buying is on the rise, thanks to e-commerce and TV home-shopping, neither of which requires us to change out of our sweatpants and leave the house to make a splurchase.

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