binge
Americannoun
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binges
plural
verb (used without object)
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binges,
present (3rd person singular)
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binged,
past participle, past
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bingeing,
present participle
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binging
present participle
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
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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bingesimple
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bingessimple
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have bingedperfect
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has bingedperfect
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am bingeingprogressive
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am bingingprogressive
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are bingeingprogressive
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are bingingprogressive
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is bingeingprogressive
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is bingingprogressive
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have been bingeingperfect progressive
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have been bingingperfect progressive
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has been bingeingperfect progressive
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has been bingingperfect progressive
Past
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bingedsimple
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had bingedperfect
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was bingeingprogressive
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was bingingprogressive
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were bingeingprogressive
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were bingingprogressive
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had been bingeingperfect progressive
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had been bingingperfect progressive
Future
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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Here’s what I’m watching this morning: There’s so much breathless coverage of AI that sometimes it’s easy to forget there’s a whole economy out there running on cars, airplanes and the occasional streaming binge.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Tech startups with easy access to capital pursued loss-leading strategies to acquire customers, and private-equity firms went on an acquisition binge powered by cheap debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
But if you do binge the series first, watching it will be like “getting 24 consecutive deliveries of perfectly baked Parisian pastry.”
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026
The advent of streaming in the late 2000s replaced syndication with on-demand, binge rewatches, extending the half-life of television toward the infinite.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
It was a tradition in our house to binge on bad disaster movies instead of football or parades.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
Data-center developers have gone on their own borrowing binges to build capacity for Meta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
A colony of macaques that gorge on snacks offered by tourists in the British territory of Gibraltar swallow soil to recover from their junk food binges, a study has found.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Each is an easy joy, designed for comfort binges and the kind of repeat consumption some of us crave during cozy season.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2024
He no longer binges on pizza, and is down to 160 pounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
I guessed that he had the jelly beans to make it look like he was offering kids a treat, but in actuality he never did and went on his own jelly-bean-eating binges.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
It then became an entertainment powerhouse by paying up for original series that could be streamed over the internet and often binged in a single evening.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
In reply to the post, Taraji P Henson - star of hits including Hidden Figures and Empire - said the show had had her in a "chokehold" and she had binged it in one day.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
I recently binged the new “Love is Blind” season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
They remember the shows that defined their childhood; that had them planted on couches for appointment viewing; that they binged when streaming came into the picture; that were fodder for water-cooler conversations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
She binged and dieted and then cycled through it all again.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
With a major career milestone within her reach and increased appearances in front of the camera, the sudden pressures on Maddie trigger long-hidden patterns of disordered eating: bingeing and purging, secrets and lies.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
After bingeing on software firms in 2020 and 2021, many private-equity firms are now stuck holding companies with worsening outlooks and rising debt loads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Now you just drop a service entirely at the click of a button, when a sports season ends or you’re done bingeing a favorite show.
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026
Young people around the world are snatching Adidas Tang-style jackets off the shelves, bingeing on Chinese micro-dramas and experimenting with powdery make-up looks flaunted by Chinese girls and women on Douyin, China's version of TikTok.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
Mustafa is sprawled in his usual spot on the sofa watching an episode of the latest show he’s bingeing and doesn’t look up when we come into the room.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
I’m also nearly finished binging the sweet but juicy Peacock show “The Five-Star Weekend,” which is based on the Nantucket-set Elin Hilderbrand novel of the same name.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Still, patient viewers can save by waiting a couple months and binging the full seasons of both.
From MarketWatch ● May 31, 2026
Unlike disordered-eating behaviors like binging or purging, which often prompt concern or intervention, orthorexic actions are likely to be overlooked or even praised.
From Slate ● May 25, 2025
After plucking up the courage to seek help, I was eventually diagnosed with anorexia nervosa with binging tendencies.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2025
He remembers once telling Volpe that he was binging on Kurt Vonnegut novels, “going through a Vonnegut stage.”
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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