spiel

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)

OXFORD DICTIONARY

spiel, 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

THESAURUS

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