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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spur-of-the-moment
adjective
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▪ Today its message seemed less equivocal, and the accompanying note no more than one of Cameron's spur-of-the-moment enthusiasms.
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spur-of-the-moment

a. spontaneous; impromptu.

WordNet
spur-of-the-moment

adj. in response to an unforeseen need; "a spur-of-the-moment party"

Usage examples of "spur-of-the-moment".

Lin worked with it, rendering the muscle tone in abstract streaks and drips, a spur-of-the-moment rescue.

It was just a spur-of-the-moment thing-we didn't have classes on Halloween and the weather was so nice and Miles said, hey, let's go out to Chimney Rock.

I finally found a small canned ham, and with this, some canned new potatoes, and three of the highly valuable eggs from our community's small flock of chickens, managed to make a sort of ham and potato salad, moistened with a spur-of-the-moment, homemade mayonnaise I whipped up from the yolk of one of the eggs and the corn oil we had in fair quantity.

It really wasn't fair that such a trivial, spur-of-the-moment, seemingly harmless decision such as taking an iced coffee to-go could change the entire course of a girl's life.