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Princeton's WordNet

  1. spur-of-the-momentadjective

    in response to an unforeseen need

    "a spur-of-the-moment party"

Wiktionary

  1. spur-of-the-momentadjective

    Spontaneous; impromptu.

    It was a spur-of-the-moment decision to buy the car.

  2. Etymology: See spur of the moment

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  1. spur-of-the-moment

    Spur-of-the-moment refers to an action or decision made impulsively, without pre-planning or considering the consequences. It involves sudden and spontaneous behavior prompted by the situation or circumstance at that particular time.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of spur-of-the-moment in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of spur-of-the-moment in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of spur-of-the-moment in a Sentence

  1. Earl Granville:

    It was just a spur of the moment.

  2. George Steinbrenner:

    It’s a very justified question to ever ask and to always ask, because he was one of the greatest at what he did, and all I can do is do my best, be my own person, make the decisions in the way that I've always made decisions, which is putting in as much thought into a decision as possible, taking the time if I have the time to do just that. There's no doubt I'm going to live a little bit less spur of the moment than he was in a lot of ways.

  3. Brendan Hunt:

    I had made that video one night when I had been having a bunch of beers, smoking a little weed, taken a few bong rips, and I kind of did this spur of the moment video, just spewing out some rhetoric, and I didn't think anything was wrong at the time, i thought it was sort of amusing in a way. And Inauguration Day later I checked back into Inauguration Day with a bit of a sober mind and saw that Inauguration Day wasn't really sparking the dialogue that I had hoped to get going.

  4. Billy Horschel:

    Unfortunately there was a fan who said something on the tee, and spur of the moment I said something, a word in the middle there, that I wish I wouldn't have said, i apologize to the fans.

  5. Jennifer Lopez:

    It was very, very minimally planned in advance and was largely spur of the moment. Violet stayed home because Jennifer Lopez’s extremely loyal to Jennifer Lopez mom.

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