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noun
a usually brief period or bout of excessive alcohol consumption.
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Origin of binge drinking First recorded in 1960–65
OTHER WORDS FROM binge drinking binge drinker, noun
Words nearby binge drinking bine ,
Binet ,
Binet-Simon scale ,
bing ,
binge ,
binge drinking ,
binge eating ,
binge eating disorder ,
Bingen ,
binge-purge syndrome ,
binge-watch
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How to use binge drinking in a sentence Studies have found higher rates of binge drinking and alcoholism, and some state coroners have reported a sharp increase in alcohol-related deaths during the pandemic.
Like cigarettes and lung cancer, or binge drinking and a hangover, racial injustice and the legacy of colonialism are in fact inextricably linked with climate change.
Before anti-vaxxers, there were anti-fluoriders: a group who spread fear about the anti-tooth decay agent added to drinking water.
Placed in drinking water, fluoride can serve people who otherwise have poor access to dental care.
Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
Binge eating and purging does the same for someone with bulimia.
Early on, the sexual protagonist complains that her Molson-drinking husband is pretty much an incompetent Neanderthal.
Outside the hotel he came upon the two sisters sitting on a bench and drinking coffee.
A quite young child will, for example, pretend to do something, as to take an empty cup and carry out the semblance of drinking.
Smoking was called drinking tobacco, as the fashionable method was to "put it through the nose" or exhale it through the nostrils.
Smoking now is as common as eating and drinking, and to smoke amongst ladies is a vulgarity.
The French habit of coffee-drinking and the English habit of tea-drinking are also cases in point.
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British Dictionary definitions for binge drinking
noun
the practice of drinking excessive amounts of alcohol regularly
Derived forms of binge drinking binge drinker , noun Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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