binge
(bĭnj)
[From dialectal binge, to soak.]
noun
- A drunken spree or revel.
- A period of unrestrained, immoderate self-indulgence.
- A period of excessive or uncontrolled indulgence in food or drink: an eating binge.
intransitive verb: binged, bing·ing or binge·ing, bing·es.
- To be immoderately self-indulgent and unrestrained: “The story is like a fever dream that a disturbed and imaginative city-dweller might have after binging on comics” (Lloyd Rose)
- To engage in excessive or uncontrolled indulgence in food or drink.
derivatives
- binǵer
- noun
synonyms:
binge, fling, jag2orgy, spree These nouns denote a period of uncontrolled self-indulgence: a gambling binge; had one last fling before beginning a new job; a crying jag; an eating orgy; a shopping spree.