binge-watch
verb
ˈbinj-ˌwäch 
-ˌwȯch
binge-watched; binge-watching; binge-watches
: to watch many or all episodes of (a TV series) in rapid succession
Even those of us who have bundled TV and broadband-Internet subscriptions from telephone or cable companies increasingly use them to binge-watch Netflix shows like Orange Is the New Black on an iPad … rather than flip through 500 channels to find nothing on.—
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Back then, my relatively limited knowledge of food came from binge-watching Ina Garten and collecting a mountainous pile of cookbooks that threatened to take over my bedroom.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2025
To help create a manageable binge-watch list, here are six new shows to keep on your radar.
—Dana Feldman, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Solitaire couldn’t compete with the dopamine hits of doom-scrolling social media or binge-watching Breaking Bad for the third time.
—Ariana Torrey, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
In my library in Queens, NY, kindergarteners through second graders clamor for Green Eggs and Ham after binge-watching the 2019 Netflix series of the same title (and all the Grinch and Lorax movies too).
—Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
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Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2025
To help create a manageable binge-watch list, here are six new shows to keep on your radar.
—Dana Feldman, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Solitaire couldn’t compete with the dopamine hits of doom-scrolling social media or binge-watching Breaking Bad for the third time.
—Ariana Torrey, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
In my library in Queens, NY, kindergarteners through second graders clamor for Green Eggs and Ham after binge-watching the 2019 Netflix series of the same title (and all the Grinch and Lorax movies too).
—Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
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“Binge-watch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/binge-watch. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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