binge
noun/bɪndʒ/
/bɪndʒ/
(informal)- a short period of time when somebody does too much of a particular activity, especially eating or drinking alcohol
- to go on a binge
- binge drinking
- One of the symptoms is binge eating.
- I had a shopping binge with my credit card.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- drinking
- drunken
- eating
- …
- go on
- have
- drinking
- eating
- drinker
- …
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from English dialect binge ‘to soak a wooden vessel’.Definitions on the go
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