binge-drink
verb [no object]
Consume an excessive amount of alcohol in a short period of time: if you don’t allow alcohol to be served at a stadium, fans will just go out and binge-drink before the game...
- A Health Minister last night led calls for a ban on 'dangerous' mobile phone apps that encourage young people to binge-drink.
- A University of Melbourne study of 400 people presented at the same conference found 7 per cent of men aged over 60 were binge-drinking once a week.
- Problem drinking is usually thought of in terms of young people binge-drinking in city centres, or people with alcohol dependency.
Derivatives
binge drinker
- He does not normally drink much but is a classic binge drinker.
- She admitted she used to be a binge drinker and sometimes got through two bottles of wine a day.
- I was a binge drinker at the weekend in my early 20s - I still drink too much on the odd occasion I go out.