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.