Definition of Spreeing

1. spree [v] - See also: spree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spreeing

spreazing
sprechgesang
sprechstimme
spreckled
spred
spredd
spredde
spredden
spreddes
spredding
spredds
spreds
spree
spree killer
spreed
spreeing (current term)
sprees
spreethe
spreethed
spreethes
spreeze
spreezed
spreezes
spreezing
spreite
spreiten
sprelve
sprelves
sprengel pump

Literary usage of Spreeing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of the Decisions of the Court of Appeals of the State of Colorado by Colorado Court of Appeals, William E. Beck, Thomas M. Robinson, John Alonzo Gordon (1903)
"... and that said Edmond M. Owen had been addicted to periodical spreeing for years before the time of said application. and during such periodical ..."

2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"Hence spreeing means " going on a drunk." 1834 [They] think as much of an Indian encounter as a city blood does of a " spree " with the watchman. ..."

3. Princeton Stories by Jesse Lynch Williams (1906)
"... and painting and repainting water-towers, and losing sleep in other good causes; in short, early in the term the candidates for the spreeing positions ..."

4. Nineteenth Century Letters by Byron Johnson Rees (1919)
"I told him what had been agreed upon— that I was a little sick, and that Dow, knowing I had been, in times past, given to spreeing upon an extensive scale, ..."

5. Journal of the Senate of Minnesota Sitting as a High Court of Impeachment ...by Eugene St. Julien Cox, Minnesota Legislature Senate by Eugene St. Julien Cox, Minnesota Legislature Senate (1882)
"I thought he look- led as if he was spreeing it a little; I can't describe the looks of the ... or had been spreeing it ? A. I don't recollect that he did. ..."

6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"A person who leaves his work and goes spreeing and rambling, unsettled, dissipated person is said to "fowler through the country. ..."

7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1884)
"... a great deal goes on in the way of "spreeing," of which parents, in spite of their living in England at the self-same moment, are comparatively ignorant ..."

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