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The Collaborative International Dictionary
bulimic

bulimic \bu*lim"ic\ (b[u^]*l[=e]m"[i^]k) a.

  1. of or pertaining to bulimia.

  2. suffering from bulimia. [PJC] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bulimic

1854, "voracious;" see bulimia + -ic. Meaning "suffering from bulimia nervosa" is recorded from 1977. The noun in this sense is from 1980.

Wiktionary
bulimic

a. 1 Suffering from bulimia nervosa. 2 Of, or relating to, bulimia nervosa. n. A person suffering from bulimia.

WordNet
bulimic
  1. adj. suffering from bulimia

  2. n. a person suffering from bulimia

Usage examples of "bulimic".

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

How about I tell her how you need your own Roman vomitorium, you fucking bulimic.

A pair of recovering Welsh bulimics had rented the house next to the plaza, the very seismic epicentre of the fiesta.

Louise, to his bulimic vamp, who screamed at him all night long and never got the curse.

Heritagist poseurs trying to buy themselves the illusion that their neurotic drug-addicted promiscuous bulimic dyslexic brats had one single grain of brains or talent.

Two and a half months after Gina moved down to London (she was surprisingly well organized and unterrified, and without his seeming to do much about it she soon had a tube-map and a duplicate of his door key and a diary/address book and a job andno, she insisteda studio flat nice and near to his place with white curtains and a white sofa that at midnight she transformed into an aromatic bed infested with embroidered pillows and cuddly animals where he too was cuddled and canoodled and regularly rendered speechless by her ultrametropolitan diligence and ingenuity on top of all the primitive ardor), Richard left her and went back to Dominique-Louise, to his bulimic vamp, who screamed at him all night long and never got the curse.

It was one reason he'd even been able to stick out his nine residential months here with twenty-one other newly detoxed housebreakers, hoods, whores, fired execs, Avon ladies, subway musicians, beer-bloated construction workers, vagrants, indignant car salesmen, bulimic trauma-mamas, bunko artists, mincing pillow-biters, North End hard guys, pimply kids with electric noserings, denial-ridden housewives and etc.

Unfortunately, however, no amount of research had discovered a cure for gap-sickness, that strange breakdown of the mind which took perhaps one out of every hundred people who crossed the dimensional gap and reduced him or her to a psychotic killer or a null-wave transmitter, a raving bulimic or a gleeful self-flagellant, a pedophiliac or a pill-junkie.

According to her, the students and faculty at Bass were a pack of freaks and losers, and the parents of the Bass kids were snobby self-indulgent artsy-fartsy crypto-Heritagist poseurs trying to buy themselves the illusion that their neurotic drug-addicted promiscuous bulimic dyslexic brats had one single grain of brains or talent.