binge Definition
binge (binj)
noun
- a spree or bout of unrestrained imbibing or eating
- 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 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.
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