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• to quickly start performing necessary activities.

  The firefighters sprang into action.

  My dad Sprang into action.

  Last edited on Apr 15 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jan 18 2010.

noun

• a child.

                                                                                                           
  
  Citation from "Mr. Bob's Toddler Kaleidoscope", Up All Night (TV), Season 1 Episode 5 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on Oct 27 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 27 2011.

verb - intransitive

• of a person, to become taller quickly.

  My son really sprouted as a freshman in high school.

  Last edited on Oct 27 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 27 2011.

noun

• a person who exaggerates or embellishes the facts.

  You're an old sprucer.

  Last edited on May 05 2014. Submitted by Anonymous from Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK on Apr 28 2014.

adjective

• obsessed with something/someone.

  She was sprung off those shoes as soon as she saw them.

  Last edited on Feb 21 2018. Submitted by Johnny ". from Columbia, SC, USA on Jun 08 2002.

• to have an erection.

  After the striptease, I was totally sprung.

  Last edited on Feb 21 2018. Submitted by MEGAN on May 13 2003.

• extremely smitten.

  Last edited on Aug 09 2003. Submitted by Peter R. from Los Angeles, CA, USA on Aug 09 2003.

• in love with everything about a person, often occurs in early dating.

  Holy cow, Peter has only been dating Linzy a month and he is so sprung on her!

  Last edited on Aug 09 2003. Submitted by Peter R. from Los Angeles, CA, USA on Aug 09 2003.

• someone who has become unmoored.

  The origin of the name "La Honda" has its twist, like just about every thing else in the sprung history of this town. --A Separate Place p 32 Charles Jones.(1974)

  This definition is questionable and is pending deletion. It will be saved from deletion if legitimate citations are found.

  Last edited on Feb 21 2018. Submitted by tedrodgers on Dec 06 2017.

verb

• getting the hots for, put in daze, mesmerized by someone of the opposite gender.

  Amber was sprung by a hot guy in her math class.

  Last edited on Feb 21 2018. Submitted by Jacki from NC, USA on May 19 2002.

• infatuated, enamored.

  Last edited on Feb 21 2018. Submitted by Shiva from Washington, DC, USA on Dec 19 2004.

• "smitten"

  Last edited on Feb 21 2018. Submitted by Kelsey M. from Portland, OR, USA on Aug 29 2006.

notes

• "sprung" is also the past tense of the verb "spring".

  The spring sprung back into place.

  Last edited on Apr 10 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Mar 30 2010.

noun

• a submarine sandwich.

  Run up to Rip's Sub Shop and pick up a couple of spuckies.

  • See more words with the same meaning: food.

  Last edited on Jun 21 1997. Submitted by John Smith from Phoenix, AZ, USA on Jun 21 1997.

• noun, means acting like a vegetable, dense, not too alert.

  God, you're such a spud! She is such a spud! He is very spudly.

  Last edited on Aug 07 2011. Submitted by celia d. from New York, NY, USA on May 20 1999.

noun

• potato.

  Can I chop the carrots, because I hate peeling spuds.

  Last edited on May 31 2004. Submitted by Matthew R. from Blackpool, United Kingdom on May 31 2004.

origin

• Nickname for a member of the Murphy tribe, e.g. Spud Murphy, a member of an elite cohort of Irish society, a term of honour, often used by non-Irish incorrectly as an insult, in particular by UK subjects of the Crown due to anti-Irish racism endemic in the colonial conquest of Ireland. Murphy is from the Irish for Sea Warrior or Hound of the Sea. The term Spud was applied due to Murphy virility as there were as many Murphys as there were Spuds in a field.

  Last edited on Sep 05 2021. Submitted by Anonymous on Sep 05 2021.