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binge-watcher

binge-watcher

English

Noun

binge-watcher (plural binge-watchers)

  1. One who binge-watches a television programme.
    • 2012, William Loeffler, "Are you a binge TVer?", Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 12 August 2012:
      The market is adjusting to binge-watchers. Family Video has seasons of "24," "Prison Break" and "Boston Legal" available on DVD.
    • 2014, William Wun, "‘House of Cards’ finds avid audience in China", The Washington Post, 18 February 2014:
      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, James Rampton, "24: Live Another Day – Kiefer Sutherland on the return of Jack Bauer", The Independent, 6 May 2014:
      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.