English

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 9780743296250, 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.

Synonyms

• impulse buy
• impulse purchase

Quotations

• For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:splurchase.