Usually means: Sudden, short burst of activity.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. spurt: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. spurt, spurt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spurt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spurt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spurt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Spurt, spurt: Wordnik
  7. spurt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. spurt: Wiktionary
  9. spurt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. spurt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. spurt: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. spurt: Dictionary.com
  13. spurt (n.), spurt (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. spurt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Spurt (Dutch Railways), Spurt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Spurt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. spurt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. spurt: Rhymezone
  19. spurt, spurt (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. spurt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. spurt: Free Dictionary
  22. spurt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. spurt: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. spurt: Legal dictionary

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  1. spurt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. spurt: Medical dictionary

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  1. SPURT: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. spurt: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spurt: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Spurt: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See spurted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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