spree

• n. 暴飲暴食；無秩序な熱狂的行動；陽気騒ぎ
• vi. 暴飲暴食する；猛烈に飲む
• n. （シュプレー）人の名前；（ドイツ語）シュプレー

スラング。おそらくフランス語のespirt「精神、活力」が語源で、語源的にはspiritと同じ。

spree (n.)

"a frolic, drinking bout," 1804, slang, earliest use in Scottish dialect works, of uncertain origin. Perhaps [Barnhart] an alteration of French esprit "lively wit" (see esprit). According to Klein, Irish spre seems to be a loan-word from Old Norse sprakr. Watkins proposes a possible origin as an alteration of Scots spreath "cattle raid," from Gaelic sprédh, spré, "cattle; wealth," from Middle Irish preit, preid, "booty," ultimately from Latin praeda "plunder, booty" (see prey (n.)).

The splore is a frolic, a merry meeting. In the slang language of the inhabitants of St Giles's, in London, it is called a spree or a go. [Note in "Select Scottish Songs, Ancient and Modern," vol. II, London, 1810]

In Foote's comedy "The Maid of Bath" (1794) the word appears as a Scottish dialect pronunciation of spry: " 'When I intermarried with Sir Launcelot Coldstream, I was en siek a spree lass as yoursel; and the baronet bordering upon his grand climacteric;' " etc.

1. They went on the spree and spent a lot of money.

彼らは大食いで、大金を使った。

2.Some Americans went on a spending spree in December to beat the new tax.

一部の米国人は12月に新税を避けるために狂ったようにお金を使っている。

3.After her shoplifting spree she lived in mortal dread of being found out.

店で盗みを連発した後、彼女は一日中恐れていた。

4.Old Sebastian 's on the spree again.

セバスチャンさんはまたお祭り騒ぎをした。

5.He went on a drinking spree .

彼は狂飲して楽しんだ。