A period of unrestrained, immoderate self-indulgence.
A period of excessive or uncontrolled indulgence in food or drink: an eating binge.
intr.v.
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.
[From dialectal binge, to soak.] bing'er n.
Synonyms: 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.
n. a drinking or drugging spree. : Larry is the type who likes a good binge every now and then.
n. any spree of self-indulgence: emotional, gluttonous, etc. : About Thanksgiving time I start a monthlong eating binge.
in. to drink heavily. : She binges about once a month and is stone-cold sober the rest of the time.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History
binge
1854, "drinking bout," dialectal use of binge "soak" (a wooden vessel), so, by extension, "drink heavily, soak up alcohol." Sense extended c. World War I to include eating as well as drinking.
Main Entry: binge Pronunciation: 'binj Function: intransitive verb Inflected Forms: binged;binge·ingorbing·ing : to eat compulsively or greedily especially as a symptom of bulimia bingeing —Carol Tavris> —bing·er/-&r/noun