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drunkorexia

noun

Etymology

Blend of drunk + anorexia.

  1. borrowed from ἀνορεξία
  2. compounded as drunkorexia — “drunk + anorexia”

Definitions

  1. A combination of anorexia or bulimia with alcohol abuse.

    • The latest entry in the lexicon of food-related ills is drunkorexia, shorthand for a disturbing blend of behaviors: self-imposed starvation or bingeing and purging, combined with alcohol abuse .

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for drunkorexia. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA