Usually means: Purchase made without prior planning.
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  1. impulse buy: Collins English Dictionary
  2. impulse-buy: Vocabulary.com
  3. impulse-buy: Wordnik
  4. impulse buy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. impulse buy: Wiktionary
  6. impulse-buy: Dictionary.com
  7. impulse-buy: Rhymezone
  8. impulse-buy: FreeDictionary.org
  9. impulse-buy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. impulse-buy, impulse buy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. impulse buy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. impulse buy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (impulse buy)

▸ noun:  Something purchased spontaneously, without planning or thought.

Similar:
spur of the moment, impulse, splurchase, caprice, underpulse, sprunt, flip, outleap, rush-job, hurry, more...

Opposite:
planned purchase, deliberate purchase

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Similar:
spur of the moment, impulse, splurchase, caprice, underpulse, sprunt, flip, outleap, rush-job, hurry, more...

Opposite:
planned purchase, deliberate purchase



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