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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any act of immoderate indulgence; "an orgy of shopping"; "an emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending" [syn: orgy, binge, splurge]
2: an occasion for excessive eating or drinking; "they went on a bust that lasted three days" [syn: bust, tear, binge, bout] v
1: overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: English dialect binge (to drink heavily) Date: 1854 1. a. a drunken revel ; spree b. an unrestrained and often excessive indulgence <a buying binge> c. an act of excessive or compulsive consumption (as of food) 2. a social gathering ; party II. intransitive verb (binged; bingeing or binging) Date: 1910 to go on a binge • binger noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. sl. --n. a spree; a period of uncontrolled eating, drinking, etc. --v.intr. go on a spree; indulge in uncontrolled eating, drinking, etc. Etymology: prob. orig. dial., = soak

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(binges, bingeing, binged) 1. If you go on a binge, you do too much of something, such as drinking alcohol, eating, or spending money. (INFORMAL) She went on occasional drinking binges. N-COUNT 2. If you binge, you do too much of something, such as drinking alcohol, eating, or spending money. (INFORMAL) I haven't binged since 1986... I binged on pizzas or milkshakes. VERB: V, V on n

Moby Thesaurus

bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat, bender, blast, blowout, booze, bout, brannigan, bum, bust, carousal, carouse, celebration, compotation, debauch, drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, escapade, fling, guzzle, jag, lark, orgy, ploy, potation, pub-crawl, rampage, randan, randy, revel, soak, souse, splurge, spree, symposium, tear, time, toot, wassail, wingding