The dangerous practice of consuming large quantities of alcoholic beverages in a single session. Binge drinking carries a serious risk of harm, including alcohol poisoning. See Alcohol poisoning.

Heavy bouts of drinking interspersed with periods of abstinence; often refers to the consumption of five or more alcoholic beverages within one day.

The act of consuming more than 4 standard drinks per night. It is however, important to realise that all of these numbers are standard drinks and not ‘drinks’.

A heavy drinking session normally associated with alcohol.

Drinking an excessive amount of Alcoholic Beverages in a short period of Time.

For men, binge drinking is defined as drinking five or more drinks in a row, and for women as drinking four or more drinks in a row in the past two weeks. "Frequent" binge drinking i [..]

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) task force on college drinking, in a 2007 booklet entitled “What Colleges Need to Know Now: An Update on College Drinking Research,” defi [..]

Respondents were asked "[c]onsidering all types of alcoholic beverages, how many times during the past 30 days did you have [5, if male respondent] [4, if female respondents] or more drinks on an occasion?" Respondents who reported doing so at least one time were consider to have engaged in binge drinking. Beneficiary (SSA):

The consumption of excessive amounts of alcohol in a short period of time. ''Fights caused by binge drinking are a major problem in Cardiff.''