binge
/bɪnd͡ʒ/
binge noun: a short period of excessive consumption, especially of food, alcohol, narcotics, etc.
Noun
binge (plural binges)
- A short period of excessive consumption, especially of food, alcohol, narcotics, etc.
- A compressed period of an activity done in excess, such as watching a television show.
Verb
binge (third-person singular simple present binges, present participle bingeing or binging, simple past and past participle binged)
- 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.
binge meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
binge in Tamil
- குடி, உணவு முதலியவற்றில் மிதமிஞ்சுதல், கட்டுப்பாடற்ற, குருட்டுத்தனமான மிதமிஞ்சல், அளவு மீறல், மிதமிஞ்சு
binge in Urdu
- ناؤ نوشی, اچھل کود
binge in Bengali
- অসংযত ভোজন, পান, কোনো কাজ মাত্রাতিরিক্ত করা
binge in Malayalam
- drinking bout, debauch, bender session
- മദിച്ചുല്ലസിക്കൽ, അമിതമായ തീറ്റിയും കുടിയും, അതിപാനോത്സവം, അമിതഭോഗാസക്തിയിൽ മുഴുകൽ, കുടിച്ചു മറിയൽ, വിഷയലമ്പടത്വം
More languagesFewer languages
- binge in Kannada
- ಪಾನಕೇಳಿ, ಹೆಂಡದ ಸಮಾರಾಧನೆ, ವರಸೆ ಕುಡಿತ
Examples of binge in a sentence
- I'm totally happy to binge when I'm not busy.
- 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.2017 January 12, Arwa Mahdawi, “Generation treat yo' self: the problem with 'self-care'”, in The Guardian:
- ([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.)2025 June 2, Adrian Horton, “Tech-bro satire Mountainhead is an insufferable disappointment”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Synonyms of binge
Forms of binge
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | binges |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | binges |
| present participle | bingeing |
| present participle | binging |
| past participle | binged |
| past | binged |
Origin of 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. Possibly inherited from Middle English *bengen, from Old English *benġan, from Proto-West Germanic *bangijan (“to press”), possibly related to *bangōn (“to bang”) and thus potentially cognate with Bavarian aufbenga (“to raise for processing”), Middle Low German bengen (“to evacuate, to force birth”, German Low German bängen, bengen, bingen), and possibly Middle Scots beynge, bynge (“to cringe”, Scots beenge), though the last could be a blend of bow (“to bow”) + crenge (“to cringe”). However, compare dialectal English beam and Scots beam, beene (“to cure leakage in a tub or barrel by soaking, thereby causing the wood to swell”), though these could be specialised developments of Old English bēam (“wood”), with variants in /n/ being due to influence from this word or assimilation before syncopated forms of the past tense suffix.
Words formed from binge
- binge and purge
- archive binge
- bingeable
- binge-and-purge
- binge drinker
- binge drinking
- binge eat
- binge eater
- binge eating
- binge eating disorder
- binge flush
- bingeful
- binge-play
- binge-purge
- binger
- binge viewing
- binge watch
- binge-watch
- binge-watchable
- binge-watcher
- binge-watching
- binge watching
- binge-worthy
- postbinge
- prebinge
Phrases with binge
Words that rhyme with binge
Questions about binge
- What does binge mean?
- Binge means a short period of excessive consumption, especially of food, alcohol, narcotics, etc.
- What is binge in Tamil?
- Binge in Tamil is குடி, உணவு முதலியவற்றில் மிதமிஞ்சுதல், கட்டுப்பாடற்ற. See Binge meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use binge in a sentence?
- I'm totally happy to binge when I'm not busy.
- What part of speech is binge?
- Binge can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce binge?
- Binge is pronounced /bɪnd͡ʒ/.
- What is the plural of binge?
- The plural of binge is binges.
Words near binge in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: binge (page history and authors); binge (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); binge (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); binge (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); binge (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); binge (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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