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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson) [syn: spiel, patter, line of gab] v
1: replay (as a melody); "Play it again, Sam"; "She played the third movement very beautifully" [syn: play, spiel]
2: speak at great length (about something)

Merriam Webster's

I. verb Etymology: German spielen to play, from Old High German spil?n; akin to Old English spilian to revel Date: 1870 intransitive verb 1. to play music 2. to talk volubly or extravagantly transitive verb to utter, express, or describe volubly or extravagantly • spieler noun II. noun Date: 1896 a voluble line of often extravagant talk ; pitch

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. sl. --n. a glib speech or story, esp. a salesman's patter. --v. 1 intr. speak glibly; hold forth. 2 tr. reel off (patter etc.). Etymology: G, = play, game

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(spiels) Someone's spiel is a well-prepared speech that they make, and that they have usually made many times before, often in order to persuade you to buy something. (INFORMAL) = patter N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

advertise, ballyhoo, bark, bat the breeze, beat the gums, bill, boost, build up, bulletin, chin, circularize, cry up, debate, declaim, demagogue, demagoguery, dramatics, elocute, establish, give a write-up, give publicity, harangue, hold forth, jaw, mouth, orate, out-herod Herod, patter, perorate, pitch, placard, plug, post, post bills, post up, press-agent, promote, publicize, puff, pyrotechnics, rabble-rouse, rant, read, recite, rodomontade, sales pitch, sales talk, sell, sensationalism, shoot the breeze, song and dance, spout, tub-thump, write up, yak, yakkety-yak, yap