spruik
/spruːk
/verb [no object] Australian informal
1Speak in public, especially to advertise a show: men who spruik outside striptease joints...
- Speaking at the annual Festival of Science in Dublin, he urged scientists not to spruik for public support by overselling the potential of stem cell research.
- In Naming the minority, a new group, Australians Against Racism, spruiked for donations to fund television advertisements on refugees and received a big response.
- And immediately after I'd started speaking, my opponent arranged for the local motorbike club to get their bikes and go racing up and down outside the corner where I was trying hard to spruik.
1.1Promote or publicize: the company forked out $15 million to spruik its digital revolution...
- Frankie errs on the side of edgy celeb rather than pimping stars spruiking the latest big Hollywood blockbuster.
- I've had two types of Liberal Party polling spruiked to me recently.
- There's more spruiking on the show than there is actual dancing.
Derivatives
spruiker
- Neil Jenman, an Australian real estate agent famous for his crusades on integrity in the real estate game has this to say about spruikers in the property market.
- So against our better judgement we responded to one of the spruikers ' calls.
- On one occasion, the spruiker refused point blank to tell me the name of the company he was representing.
Origin
Early 20th century: of unknown origin.
Rhymes
- Northern Territory
- Northern Tier
- northern waterthrush
- northern white cedar
- north-facing
- North, Frederick
- North Germanic
- north half
- northing
- North Island
- North Islander
- North Kingstown
- North Korea
- North Korean
- northland
- northlander
- North Las Vegas
- north light
- North Little Rock
- northly
- Northman
- northmost
- northness
- north-north-east
- north-north-easterly