Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to attack, to slander.

1967

L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 27: The Irish got schpritzed and schpritzed.

2. to perform a stage monologue with much impromptu ad libbing, free-associating etc; thus shpritzing n., such a performance; shpritzer n., one who performs in this way.

1975		A. Goldman Lenny Bruce 14: Lenny starts to spritz [...] riding along the hops and beats of his Broadway-Brooklyntachycardic speech.
1975		A. Goldman Ladies and Gentlemen–Lenny Bruce! 41: They digs his looks [...] Dying to hear him spritz.
1990		W. Keough Punchlines xx: Woody Allen and Jackie Mason [...] have spritzed their way across stage and screen.
1993		D. Weizmann ‘Wiseguys, Tin Men and Table Shpritzers’ in Too Cool 🌐 True shpritzing runs on freedom and fluidity, the uncanny ability to both accelerate and stop on a dime and respond to the moment. A great many king shpritzers started out in the Forties and Fifties as Catskills resort court jesters, where they were expected to be FUNNY everywhere all the time.

3. to air one’s feelings or opinions, to emote.

1975		in A. Goldman Ladies and Gentlemen–Lenny Bruce! 177: He spritzed me about my ‘pimp mentality’.
2001		(con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 90: Pete bought him a drink. The man spritzed on Vegas and dope.
2023		(con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 151: [H]ip circles, where everyone spritzes.

4. of a human or an object, e.g. a gun, to spray .

2001		(con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 117: The man froze. Glass spritzed him. He covered his eyes.
2005		L. Redhead Rubdown [ebook] I found [...] Sean’s cologne. I spritzed a bit on my wrist.
2006		C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 159: The woman from the trailer park [...] stood spritzing her arms with bug juice.
2015		T. Pluck ‘Big Snip’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 25: She used her body as a shield to spritz an entire vial of ketamine into Kyle’s rock ’n’ rye.
2019		S.M. Jones Lives Laid Away [ebook] I showered, shpritzed on a little Clive Christian C for Men cologne.
2021		J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 35: I flashed my Marlon Brando snapshot [...] He spazzed and spritzed me with a mouthful of martini.

5. to ejaculate (on).

2023

(con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 21: Dried jizz crusts. Some perv spritzed all four pix.