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Definition of "binge" []
- A drunken spree or revel. (noun)
- A period of unrestrained, immoderate self-indulgence. (noun)
- A period of excessive or uncontrolled indulgence in food or drink: an eating binge. (noun)
- To be immoderately self-indulgent and unrestrained: "The story is like a fever dream that a disturbed and imaginative city-dweller might have after binging on comics” ( Lloyd Rose). (verb-intransitive)
- To engage in excessive or uncontrolled indulgence in food or drink. (verb-intransitive)
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Use "binge" in a sentence
- "Working with the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, Duke University researchers report that 22% of men and 9% of women ages 50 to 64 engaged in binge drinking — five or more drinks at a time — within the past month of the survey."
- "From the alt economics perspective that binge is doomed."
- "All three grades reported drops in binge drinking from 2004 to 2009."