binge

/bɪnd͡ʒ/

binge

English Noun Top 20,800

Definition

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

Etymology

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”).