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Definition: Binge |
BingeNoun1. An occasion for excessive eating or drinking; "they went on a bust that lasted three days". Verb1. Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: BingeSynonyms: bout (n), bust (n), tear (n), englut (v), engorge (v), glut (v), gorge (v), gormandise (v), gormandize (v), gourmandize (v), ingurgitate (v), overeat (v), overgorge (v), overindulge (v), pig out (v), satiate (v), scarf out (v), stuff (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: nibble (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Binge |
| Etymologies containing "binge": Bing. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Binge" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (bin). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Banana Binge (1961) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Fairburn CG. Overcoming Binge Eating. (references) | |
No one knows for sure what causes binge eating disorder. (references) | ||
It is also unclear if dieting and binge eating are related. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Binge" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.20% of the time. "Binge" is used about 117 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 81.2% | 95 | 33,629 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 17.09% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.71% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 117 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "binge": Binge eating ♦ go on a binge. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "binge": binge-and-fast, binge-and-vomit, binge-eating, binge-eating syndrome, binge-purge, binge-purge syndrome, binge-vomit, binge-vomit syndrome. | |
Ending with "binge": choc-binge. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "binge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qejf (amusement, ball, bang, delight, desire, high spirits, humor, humour, luxury, pleasure, temper, zest). (various references) | |
Arabic | مرح صاخب (bat, bender, boose, booze, hilarity, razzle-dazzle, rejoicing, revelry, rip roaring), حفلة سمر (camp-fire, frolic), حفلة (celebration, entertainment, exercise, festival, fete, junket, meeting, party, set, show). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гуляй (bat, bend, bender, blowout, bout, bum, carouse, drinking bout, feed, jamboree, junket, racket, randan, rant, rattle, razzle, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, rouse, soak, spree, tear, wassail). (various references) | |
Chinese | 狂欢 (spree). (various references) | |
Farsi | میگساری (Orgiastic, Rouse), عیاشی (Debauch, Debauchery, Jollity, Mask, Revelry), شراب خواری . (various references) | |
Finnish | juomingit (booze, drinking-bout, spree). (various references) | |
French | bringue. (various references) | |
German | gelage (banquet, carousal, carousals, carouse, feast, junket, wassail). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tivornya (bat, batter, bender, bum, bummer, carousal, flare-up, hellbender, high jinks, orgy, revelry), nagy evészet és muri. (various references) | |
Italian | baldoria (bacchanal, carouse, good time, jamboree, jollification, merriment, merrymaking, razzle-dazzle, revel, reveling, revelling, revelry, spree), festa (Bank holiday, celebration, do, feast, festival, festivity, fete, gaudy, holiday, holifay, jamboree, party). (various references) | |
Manx | er y scooyr (bender). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingebay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bebedeira (bacchanalia, drunkenness, fuddle, guzzle, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, libation, pickle, skinful, spree, wassail), farra (bum, bust, carousal, carouse, dissipation). (various references) | |
Romanian | chef (bacchanalia, banquet, blow out, booze, bust, carousal, damp, debauch, do, drinking bout, fancy, feast, good cheer, libation, racket, relish, revel, spread, spree, whim, wish). (various references) | |
Russian | кутеж (buster, rant, razzle, razzle-dazzle, spree, whoopee). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bančenje (carousal), terevenka (bender, fling, fuddle, revel, revelry), pijanka (batata, carousal, drinking bout, guzzle, spree, wassail), lumperajka (carousal, jollification). (various references) | |
Spanish | borrachera (boose, booze, drunkenness, razzle, razzle-dazzle), juerga (bat, bender, blast, good time, jamboree, joke, joy, loose, spree, travel, walk, whoopee). (various references) | |
Swedish | supkalas (bat, booze, carousal, drinking bout, drunk). (various references) | |
Turkish | içki alemi (bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bacchanals, booze, carousal, drinking bout, drunk, jag, souse, wassail), cümbüş (bash, bender, blast, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, carousal, festivity, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, metal mandolin, racket, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, riot, saturnalia, spree), alem (bat, bender, blast, blind, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, carousal, class of beings, condition, creation, entertainment, jollification, junket, kingdom, nature, orgy, party, potation, potations, razzle-dazzle, realm, revel, revelry, riot, rollicking time, spree, state, universe, whoopee, world). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гульня (bat, bum, carousal, debauch, fuddle, hellbender, punch, razzle, razzle-dazzle, spree, toot, whiz, whizz), пиятика (booze, carousal, carouse, crapulence, debauch, fuddle, libation, nosedive, racquet, whoopee). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "binge": binged, bingeing, binger, bingers, binges. (additional references) | |
Words containing "binge": harbinger, harbingered, harbingering, harbingers. (additional references) | |
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"Binge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abigne, Bangay, bange, beinge, bengel, Bengi, Bengie, Bengue, Bhingi, biage, Biaggi, Biagi, biang, Bidge, bienge, Biga, Bigena, Bigge, bigi, bigme, Bignell, binde, bine, bineo, binex, binga, bingey, bingge, Bingie, bingr, bings, Bingu, bingy, binse, Binsey, binze, birge, bonge, Bongi, bringe, Bunga, bunge, bungen, bungi, byngs, inge, ingga, Kinge, vinge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "binge" (pronounced bi"nj) |
| 3 | -i" n j | cringe, fringe, hinge, impinge, infringe, singe, syringe, tinge, twinge, unhinge. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: begin, being. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-g-i-n" | |
-1 letter: bine, gibe, gien. | |
-2 letters: beg, ben, big, bin, eng, gen, gib, gie, gin, neb, nib. | |
-3 letters: be, bi, en, in, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-g-i-n" | |
+1 letter: begins, beings, benign, binged, binger, binges, biogen, ebbing. | |
+2 letters: beading, beaming, beaning, bearing, beating, becking, bedding, beefing, beeping, begging, begonia, beguine, beignet, belling, belting, belying, bending, besting, betting, bigness, bingers, biogens, biogeny, blueing, brewing, bringer, ignoble, inbeing, kerbing, obeying, rebegin, sabeing, webbing. | |
+3 letters: abetting, badinage, beaching, beadings, bearding, bearings, beatings, becoming, beddings, bedewing, beeswing, beetling, befinger, befringe, begazing, beginner, begonias, beguines, behaving, behoving, beignets, beknight, belaying, belching, bellying, beltings, bemingle, bemiring, bemixing, bemusing, benaming, benching, benignly, beraking, berating, beriming, beringed, berrying, berthing, betaking, betiding, beveling, bewaring, bewinged, bielding, bigeminy, bingeing, biogenic, bitewing, blearing, bleating, bleeding, bleeping, blending, blessing, blindage, blueings, bogeying, boweling, bowering, breading, breaking, breaming, breeding, breezing, brewings, briefing, brighten, bringers, debasing, debating, debiting, deboning, debuting, elbowing, embaying, embowing, embruing, enabling, enrobing, fungible, gainable, glibness, ibogaine, inbeings, labeling, libeling, misbegan, misbegin, misbegun, neighbor, nonbeing, pebbling, rebating, rebegins, reboring, rebuking, rebuying, ringbone, sabering, singable, sobering, tabering, tangible, trebling, umbering, unbenign, webbings. | |
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