Usually means: Sudden, short bursts of activity.
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  1. spurts: Merriam-Webster
  2. spurts: Collins English Dictionary
  3. spurts: Vocabulary.com
  4. Spurts, spurts: Wordnik
  5. spurts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. spurts: Wiktionary
  7. spurts: Dictionary.com
  8. spurts: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. spurts: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. spurts: Legal dictionary

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  1. spurts: Medical dictionary

(Note: See spurt as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (spurt)

verb:  (transitive) To cause to gush out suddenly or violently in a stream or jet.
verb:  (intransitive) To rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet.
noun:  A brief gush, as of liquid spurting from an orifice or a cut/wound.
noun:  (slang) Ejaculation of semen.
noun:  (obsolete) A shoot; a bud.
noun:  A moment, a short period of time.
noun:  A sudden brief burst of, or increase in, speed, effort, activity, emotion or development.
noun:  The act of spurting, or something spurted
verb:  (intransitive) To make a strong effort for a short period of time.
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