binge

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I mean, they've been on a huge hiring binge now for four years.

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any act of immoderate indulgence; "an orgy of shopping"; "an emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending"

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noun

any act of immoderate indulgence; "an orgy of shopping"; "an emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending"

noun

an occasion for excessive eating or drinking; "they went on a bust that lasted three days"

verb

overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for binge.

noun

any act of immoderate indulgence; "an orgy of shopping"; "an emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending"

noun

an occasion for excessive eating or drinking; "they went on a bust that lasted three days"

verb

overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"

Example sentences

I mean, they've been on a huge hiring binge now for four years.

One snack I had to drop, and mean I had to because it was a binge type snack, was nuts.

It felt like I was binge eating, I limited what I could eat and just went mad eating it.

Almost non-stop coding and the usual coffee+sugar+pizza binge.

>Detroits leaders engaged in a billion-dollar borrowing binge, created new taxes and failed to cut expenses when they needed to.

No disrespect to Sam in any way -- he truly seems like a brilliant guy with a chorus of influential people behind him -- but I've been on a successful-person wikipedia binge as of late, and it's become very, very clear that a person's upbringing almost determines whether or not they're going to be successfull, which saddens me.