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splash out

British  

verb

  1. informal to spend (money) freely or extravagantly (on something)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“It says that you don’t want to splash out on a hotel or a proper restaurant.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

If you splash out on a new humanoid now it is likely to soon be obsolete.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

Alternatively, if you want to take a trip to Europe or splash out on a suite on a cruise, you could also use one year’s taxable RMDs.

From MarketWatch Apr. 8, 2026

So Intel had to splash out on the manufacturing expansion before the returns on those investments were there.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 26, 2025

Maybe I imagined that big splash out there behind the fog.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

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