[syn: play, spiel]
2. speak at great length (about something);
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
spiel
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)
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "spiel":
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