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Australian, pronounced 'sprook'

Using the human voice to promote an idea, goods or services to another person. Commonly refers to addressing members of the public to encourage them to enter premises, purchase goods or both.
OMG, why have you spent all your money on that shitty dress?

The guy outside the store was spruiking them.
spruik by btc6000 March 22, 2013
Urban Dictionary Merch
to harangue or address a meeting or potential customers to entice them into a premises.
The shoe store employed a spruiker during their annual sale.
spruik by wings July 14, 2005
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Over-spruik 

v. Repetitive promoting of an achievement or occurance to the point of nausea and disinterest, particularly by a Government.

n. Such an action that causes embarassment when said "achievement" or occurance does not eventuate.
v. The Weatherill Government over-spruiked the Olympic Dam expansion and are now paying the price politically.

n. The guarantee of future manufacturing jobs at Holden's Elizabeth plant was a clear over-spruik by the Government.
A specific type of game-breaking bug that causes a video game to crash and/or renders it unplayable, typically caused through the use of an obscure or obtuse method that a developer would assume no player would do.
“Hey dude, did you try San Andreas: Definitive Edition yet?”

“Yeah, but I accidentally sprunked it. I got bored and thought it’d be funny to drink 5000 cans of soda for shits & giggles. Turns out, that breaks the whole game, and now I can’t play!”
Sprunk by Azelf89 December 4, 2021
The way an African American pronounces the word Sprite.
Friend 1 - Let's go to Wendy's.
Friend 2 - Ok
-----At Wendy's--------
Friend 1 - I'll have a number 1 with a Sprite and also two Doublestacks.
Teller (In African American ebonics)- So that'll be two Doublestacks and one number 1 with a Sprike.
Friend 1 - Uhhh, sure.
sprike by Rude Bwoi April 7, 2008
To be fucked, either by another person or by yourself. Another word for screwed up or buncing.
"How did the race go?"
"I got sprunked hard by another racer."

"How did the race go?"
"I sprunked myself ."
Sprunk by Diddlesmcfartwinkle February 12, 2017

sprunked 

Verb: the complete and utter obliteration of someone in a GTA V race. Usually to a point where they have to restart.
He sprunked me off of the track and into the river! I just sprunked myself!
sprunked by TheDimensionist February 13, 2017
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Concrete cowboy 

A guy who thinks he's a country kinda guy, but in reality lives a comfortable city / suburban life.
Eugene: Look at that dude in the cowboy hat!
Todd: He's just a concrete cowboy.
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any hard liquor that is cheap & potent.. eg. relska, popov, potters, evan williams, kamchatka, fireball, rumpleminze, southern comfort, everclear
hey let's get a drink of that?

go ahead
*takes drink* ugh wtf is that?

everclear & bepsi
fucking hobo loko eeessshh
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God Shot 

A chance happening with profound meaning, an unexpected blessing, a "sign".
Dr. Drew on Celebrity Rehab said "All of a sudden what had been just another Hollywood proposal became for him an unexpected blessing, an opportunity for growth. In drug recovery language, that's called a "God shot."
God Shot by Imogen1564 February 25, 2011
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city chicken 

A food native to Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania in which cubes of pork and/or veal are put on a short, wooden skewer, breaded, then baked and/or fried.

I've heard that city chicken originated during the Great Depression, when folks didn't have enough money to buy full cuts of meat, so they assembled meat scraps on a wooden skewer, creating a make-shift drumstick. Hence the name.
Are yinz havin' city chicken for dinner?
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Is that cake?

Another way to say is this fake? Like the show real or cake
Slayyyter just announced another album last night”
“No way, is that cake?”
“Yeah whoops this isn’t real”
Is that cake? by Sexyyred September 15, 2026
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