binge-watcher

noun

One who binge-watches a television programme.

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Meanings

nounbinge-watcher (plural binge-watchers)

plural binge-watchers

  1. One who binge-watches a television programme.

    The market is adjusting to binge-watchers. Family Video has seasons of "24," "Prison Break" and "Boston Legal" available on DVD.

    2012 August 12, William Loeffler, “Are you a binge TVer?”, in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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    But its in-house translators have raced to append Chinese subtitles, finishing Chinese captions for two new episodes a day since then. That hasn’t stopped some binge-watchers from racing ahead.

    2014 February 18, William Wun, “‘House of Cards’ finds avid audience in China”, in The Washington Post

    The un-killable Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer, who in the interim has remained hugely popular with DVD "binge-watchers", returns after a four-year hiatus to try to foil another terrorist plot that threatens to bring about the end of Western civilisation as we know it.

    2014 May 6, James Rampton, “24: Live Another Day – Kiefer Sutherland on the return of Jack Bauer”, in The Independent

Origin

From binge-watch + -er.

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APA

binge-watcher. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/binge-watcher

MLA

“binge-watcher.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/binge-watcher. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “binge-watcher,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/binge-watcher.

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