binge

From Leicestershire and Northamptonshire dialect, binge (“to drink deeply", also "to soak, steep, drench", specifically "to swell a leaky wooden vessel by filling it with or plunging it into water”), of unknown origin. Compare dialectal English beene and beam (“to cure leakage in a tub or barrel by soaking, thereby causing the wood to swell”).

• IPA^(key): /bɪnd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪndʒ

binge (plural binges)

1. A short period of excessive consumption, especially of food, alcohol, narcotics, etc.

   Synonyms: bender, jag, spree, toot, debauch

2. (by extension) A compressed period of an activity done in excess, such as watching a television show.

binge (third-person singular simple present binges, present participle binging or bingeing, simple past and past participle binged)

1. (transitive, intransitive, often with on) To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol or media consumption.

   I binged on ice cream.

   She'll binge an entire series on the weekend.

   I'm totally happy to binge when I'm not busy.

   • 2017 January 12, Arwa Mahdawi, “Generation treat yo' self: the problem with 'self-care'”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     It’s nice to think that our bubble baths and personal time might have a larger political purpose (“Um, Foucault! I’m not just bingeing Netflix – I’m engaging in Platonic political philosophy in order to better serve others!”), but more often than not, our acts of self-care are simply acts of privilege.

   • 2025 June 2, Adrian Horton, “Tech-bro satire Mountainhead is an insufferable disappointment”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     ([Jesse] Armstrong, by his own admission, binged episodes of the All-In podcast, which features prominent investors and Trump’s AI/crypto czar David Sacks.)

• binge and purge

• Wright, Joseph (1898) The English Dialect Dictionary‎^[3], volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 269

• binge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Bengi, begin, being, beïng

binge c

1. (partitioned off) storage area, container
2. (slang) bed
3. pile (of goods, usually grains)