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Binge

//bɪnd͡ʒ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A short period of excessive consumption, especially of food, alcohol, narcotics, etc.
  2. 2
    an occasion for excessive eating or drinking wordnet
  3. 3
    A compressed period of an activity done in excess, such as watching a television show. broadly
  4. 4
    any act of immoderate indulgence wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol or media consumption. intransitive, often, transitive, with-on

    "I binged on ice cream."

  2. 2
    overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself wordnet
  3. 3
    to watch a large amount of media in a single seating wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Leicestershire and Northamptonshire dialect, binge (“to drink deeply", also "to soak, steep, drench", specifically "to swell a leaky wooden vessel by filling it with or plunging it into water”), of unknown origin. Compare dialectal English beene and beam (“to cure leakage in a tub or barrel by soaking, thereby causing the wood to swell”).

Etymology 2

From Leicestershire and Northamptonshire dialect, binge (“to drink deeply", also "to soak, steep, drench", specifically "to swell a leaky wooden vessel by filling it with or plunging it into water”), of unknown origin. Compare dialectal English beene and beam (“to cure leakage in a tub or barrel by soaking, thereby causing the wood to swell”).

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