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binge (binj)

noun

  1. a spree or bout of unrestrained imbibing or eating
  2. any completely unrestrained action a shopping binge

Etymology: ? < dial. binge, to soak

intransitive verb binged, binge·ing

Informal to indulge in an unrestrained manner bingeing on ice cream

binge Related Forms

binger noun

binge* Synonyms

binge*

n.

spree, fling, overeating, drinking bout; see indulgence 3, orgy.

binge Usage Examples

Preposition: on

food: I see many people, particularly women who describe with great guilt that they binge on sweet foods.

Adjective modifier

  • drunken: He meets up with Bernard during a drunken binge.
  • alcoholic: We can be temporarily incapacitated by drug overdose, mental illness, an alcoholic binge, treatable physical illness or injury.
  • heavy: It may take longer than one day to recover from a heavy binge.

Converse of object

  • do: So how did binge eating and cravings become such a large and accepted part of the macrobiotic culture?
  • have: If you have a binge and feel a disaster, don't beat yourself up.
  • follow: This candid shot from 1977 captures Bonham in his prime jut three years before his untimely death from asphyxiation following an alcohol binge.

Modifies a noun

  • drinking: For good health, binge drinking should also be avoided.
  • drinker: Hi, I've been a binge drinker for 20 years.
  • eating: All the years of binge eating have finally paid off.
  • eater: I have been a binge eater since I can remember.
  • drink: The British are the only ones who binge drink?
  • disorder: Binge eating disorder is the best understood of these.

Possessives

drinking: Except for somewhat lower proportions of ' binge ' drinking at age 16, there was little variation by age for either sex.

Noun used with modifier

  • drinking: She had been on an 8 hour drinking binge at the city's night clubs.
  • cocaine: My cocaine binges have left me anxious Last update: 30 January 2006 QUESTION I am suffering from anxiety because of past cocaine binges.
  • borrowing: After a huge borrowing binge in 2003, it had been pushed out to 11 June.
  • spending: I was getting desperate for work after a spending binge on the East Coast heading north from Sydney.
  • shopping: The rest of the afternoon is spent on a shopping binge.
  • drug: The other overpowering theme is what seems to be an out of control drug binge in suburbia.