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spiel
noun- a long-winded explanation US, 1896
- The nurse tried to take my mind off my misery by holding up my appendix and giving me a spiel about it, like a guide taking some sightseers through the Grand Canyon. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 38–39, 1946
- You give her the main spiel and I’ll fill in the details. — Max Shulman, The Zebra Derby, p. 103, 1946
- Yeah, I was outside the door while you were going through your spiel. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 20, 1947
- He must have hated me behind his spiel, yet he’d ignored me. — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, p. 445, 1947
- In the morning they’d get the letter at the desk, and he’d give the manager a spiel, and after they got the dough they’d be off. — James T. Farrell, The Life Adventure, p. 191, 1947
- In the street, a blend of juke boxes created a weird cacophony, splintered by car horns and the spiel of the hawkers before each club[.] — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 49, 1952
- The usual routine is to grab someone with junk on him, and let him stew in jail until he is good and sick. Then comes the spiel: “We can get you five years for possession.” — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 61, 1953
- He had the whole cookpot spiel worked out; he practiced on Camille and me in the evenings. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 175, 1957
- Old Omar really laid down a righteous spiel! — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 75, 1961
- I was all prepared for a sermon or long spiel about the Muslim thing. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 234, 1965
- “We never did try it in the phone booth, did we?” I said, seeking to divert her from the spiel I could feel coming on. — John Nichols, The Sterile Cuckoo, p. 174, 1965
- He comes steaming in with his usual spiel about how he’s fitted up somebody who wasn’t even on the job[.] — Ted Lewis, Jack Carter’s Law, p. [britpulp.47], 1974
- I musta been a lawyer in the other life, because I can’t resist puttin’ down a spiel in the courthouse. — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 165, 1979
- I don’t have to listen to his I-am-a-mad-mobster spiel for much longer — Kelvin Sampson, Outlaws, 2001
- a speech intended to attract customers US
- “Carny?” “Yeah.” I named a couple of outfits. “Spiel?” “Um. And sleight of hand.” — Robert Edmond Alter, Carny Kill, p. 3, 1966
- an illegal gambling operation UK
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 108, 1996
- a drinking club UK
Probably a shortening of SPIELER- — Now!, 10 April 1981
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