Usually means: Pay for someone else's expense.
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  1. spring for: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spring for: Merriam-Webster
  3. spring for: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spring for: Wiktionary
  5. spring for: Dictionary.com

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  1. spring for: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (spring for)

▸ verb:  (chiefly US, idiomatic) To pay for; to offer money.

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spring, springe, fork over, pony up, foot the bill, stump up, shell out, brass up, atspring, pick up, more...

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spring, springe, fork over, pony up, foot the bill, stump up, shell out, brass up, atspring, pick up, more...



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