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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
binge
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
binge drinking
▪ Binge drinking is an increasing problem among young people.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
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▪ We discover Athenian women going on a three-day binge every autumn, gleefully burying models of male genitalia.
▪ The Yankees went on a building binge that was never completed.
▪ When you stop a diet is it because you plan to, or do you go suddenly into a binge?
▪ Back in Atsugi he went on a movie binge.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an ice-cream binge
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Fueling up can decrease errors, increase productivity, improve your mood and prevent binge eating later on.
▪ If I took any of this particularly seriously I would risk suffering from nutritional whiplash, pursuing health in precisely contradictory binges.
▪ Neither the divorce nor the binge was a surprise to Margarett.
▪ Self pity set in and so did eating binges.
▪ Some anorexics combine fasting with occasional binges, followed by self-induced purging or vomiting.
▪ The decline came in part from a buying binge by customers in 1994 as they tried to beat 1995 price increases.
▪ The shocking stills above are from the 1992 film and show the Ally McBeal star making herself sick after a binge.
▪ This, in turn, makes binge eating more likely.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A crash diet will leave you hungry, you will binge and you will not get anywhere.
▪ Bread will stop you feeling hungry, and lessen the temptation to binge on high-fat, high-calorie foods.
▪ I don't need to binge any more - I can have plenty to eat at mealtimes.
▪ I would binge and vomit or just not eat at all.
▪ My flatmate moved out a month ago, and in that month I've used it as an excuse to binge.
▪ Right from the beginning the dieter should be learning to eat according to internal hunger cues and not to binge.
▪ Suppression of feelings such as anger, disappointment, grief, anxiety, or even excitement, can lead them to binge.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
binge

1854, "drinking bout," also (v.) "drink heavily, soak up alcohol;" dialectal use of binge "soak" (a wooden vessel). Noted originally as a Northampton dialect word. Sense extended c. World War I to include eating as well as drinking. Related: Binged; binging.

Wiktionary
binge

n. 1 A short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption. 2 (context eating disorder English) A rapid and excessive consumption of food. vb. To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption.

WordNet
binge
  1. n. any act of immoderate indulgence; "an orgy of shopping"; "an emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending" [syn: orgy, splurge]

  2. an occasion for excessive eating or drinking; "they went on a bust that lasted three days" [syn: bust, tear, bout]

binge

v. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on icecream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, pig out, satiate, scarf out]

Wikipedia
Binge

A binge is a behavior engaged in excessively over a short period of time. It may refer to:

  • Binge drinking
  • Binge eating
  • Binge-watching

Other uses of binge include:

Binge (TV channel)

Binge is an upcoming Australian 24-hour cable and satellite subscription television channel available on the Foxtel platform. It will launch on 1 October 2016. The channel, similar to sister channel BoxSets, will broadcast multiple episodes of drama and comedy programs, allowing viewers to binge-watch a series.

Usage examples of "binge".

Patients suffering from eating disorders binge on food and sometimes are both anorectic and bulimic.

I put in an occasional week-end with her and Chuffy, and when she comes to London on a shopping binge or whatever it may be, I see to it that she gets her calories.

I obsess about sweets, and after dieting for a week I usually binge on cookies, candy, or cake.

Warning signs include extreme preoccupation with weight, strict dieting followed by high-calorie eating binges, overeating when distressed, feeling out of control, disappearing after a meal, depressive moods, alcohol or drug abuse, frequent use of laxatives or diuretics, excessive exercising, and irregularities in menstrual cycle.

June 1980 Pryor was just winding up a freebase binge at his home in Northridge, California, when things went wrong.

Inside he found sixteen bags of Doritos, two cans of beans, one of them opened, replaced, and forgotten during binge munchies, and a box of Frosted Flakes.

They tend to be impulsive, particularly in activities that are potentially self damaging, such as shopping sprees, psychoactive substance abuse, reckless driving, casual sex, shoplifting, and binge eating.

If we binge on our work, we will overfish our creative trout pond, and then it will take longer for us to work as we struggle to find the images that we seek.

Although Dion never seemed to get drunk on these binges, everyone else did and had wonderful times.

A drill of eyelids, bended neck and knee, Hanging our prayers on binges, till we ape The flexures of the many-jointed worm.

I like Bach, Beethoven, and Liszt, though I have been known to go on easy-listening binges with the likes of the Eagles, Cat Stevens, or Simon and Garfunkel.

His jaw, which has somehow healed in spite of the nightly binges, rebreaks in three of the original four places.

There is a chance that bingeing and/or very strict dieting can develop into Bulimia or Anorexia.

With Jonesy's help, the talented Mr Gray had discovered something he liked more than crispy bacon, even more than bingeing on Jonesy's well of rage.

Bobby C raised a slow two-finger salute to his temple in an impassively mocking Hello as he scanned the evidence of serious bingeing in the room, through the window.