drunkorexia
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- (neologism) A combination of anorexia or bulimia with alcohol abuse.
- 2008 March 2, Sarah Kershaw, “Starving Themselves, Cocktail in Hand”, in New York Times[1]:
- 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 .