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binge

   [binj]
noun
1.
a period or bout, usually brief, of excessive indulgence, as in eating, drinking alcoholic beverages, etc.; spree.
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verb (used without object) binged, bing·ing or binge·ing.
2.
to have a binge: to binge on junk food.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Origin:
1850–55; dial. (Lincolnshire) binge to soak < ?

Related forms
bing·er, noun

Synonyms
1. bender, blast, jag, tear, bust, toot; orgy.

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bing

2   [bing]
verb (used without object) Obsolete.
to go.
Origin:
1560–70; origin uncertain
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binge
1854, "drinking bout," also (v.) "drink heavily, soak up alcohol;" dialectal use of binge "soak" (a wooden vessel). Noted originally as a Northampton dialect word. Sense extended c. World War I to include eating as well as drinking.
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bing
"heap or pile," 1510s, from O.N. bingr "heap." Also used from early 14c. as a word for bin, perhaps from notion of "place where things are piled."
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binge definition

[bɪndʒ]
  1. n.
    a drinking or drugging spree. : Larry is the type who likes a good binge every now and then.
  2. n.
    any spree of self-indulgence: emotional, gluttonous, etc. : About Thanksgiving time I start a monthlong eating binge.
  3. 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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