binge
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
noun
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a bout of excessive eating or drinking
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excessive indulgence in anything
a shopping binge
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of binge
First recorded in 1850–55; dialectal (Lincolnshire) binge “to soak”; further origin unknown
Explanation
A binge is a brief period of doing something excessively. You might celebrate your birthday by indulging in a banana cream pie binge if that's your very favorite dessert. Binge rhymes with fringe. If you give in to your urges and really indulge yourself, you binge on something, whether it's candy, video games, or shopping. There's an implied sense in the word binge that you're doing too much of something that isn't very good for you in the first place. Binge is also a verb, as in people who binge on television, watching show after show.
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Example Sentences
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Most platforms try to get around this by creating and showcasing hundreds of shows to binge on.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
That’s no big deal if you’re going to binge movies or TV shows for hours or snooze the flight away.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
Meta has also been on a hiring-and-firing binge, bringing in expensive new AI researchers and executives, while reorganizing other units and laying off existing staff.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
All eight episodes premiere at once, the better to binge them, and having stayed up until 2 a.m. doing just that, I can tell you it’s not hard, and hard not to do.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
June 24—Today I went on a strange kind of antiintellectual binge.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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