spree

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Real British patriots use cricket bats on their looting spree.

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a brief indulgence of your impulses

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noun

a brief indulgence of your impulses

verb

engage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as when shopping

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for spree.

noun

a brief indulgence of your impulses

verb

engage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as when shopping

Example sentences

Real British patriots use cricket bats on their looting spree.

He can even use his car to ram into the mall door and run down individuals before he start his shooting spree.

The solution space here isn't "spree shootings at schools through time", it is traits of spree shootings themselves -- location, methods, etc.

I was working as on a corporate dev team that hit a goldmine at one point, causing management to freak out and go on a hiring spree.

Most 'mental illness' is completely unrelated to 'likely to go on a killing spree' and this kind of ignorant crap supports exactly the kind of stigma that prevents people getting help.

They think he/she is a potential criminal/terrorist a ticking time bomb that will go off on a violent spree that will kill people because most of the people who go on murder sprees are labeled mentally ill by the news media.

One way to look at all these shutdowns is that Google is on a hiring spree - for every one of these zombie projects they kill they get a bunch of engineers who are already vetted by Google's HR and are familiar with Google's dev processes.