0 a speech, especially one that is long and spoken quickly and is intended to persuade the person listening about something:
1 a speech, esp. one that is long and spoken quickly and is intended to persuade the listener about something:
They listen to the "spiel" and the sales pitch and try to assess the value of what is offered.
I gave my spiel about how wonderful our universities were and so on.
He could give the licensing authority a great spiel about why he has a problem with dogs without having to justify that with medical evidence.
We all know the spiel; it is becoming familiar.
He was, of course, unable to answer, as his previous spiel had been all about building confidence in the viability of those services.
No "con-man" has found more felicitious words to wind up his spiel.
Then he can give us this spiel.
Although we have had an impassioned spiel, with the imputation that some of us were acting dishonourably by going to the country, we have to do that.
