bind, v. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bind v.

[orig. RAF use, and poss. the most commonly used of all RAF sl.; thus the celebrated BBC radio comedy programme of the late 1940s, Much Binding in the Marsh]

1. to bore intensely; thus binding, boring.

1922		‘J.H. Ross’ Mint (1955) 118: Bloody binding to fuck round this cunting fence all night.
1937–84		Partridge DSUE (1984) 79/1: from ca. 1920.
1999		Indep. Rev. 26 June 2: If I were Judith Chalmers I’d bind on about the narrow cobbled streets in the picturesque old town.
2000		Observer Rev. 9 Apr. 16: Why else did he bind on about her wanting to be famous?

2. to complain, to scold.

1942		L. Gleed Arise to Conquer 11: We stayed sitting in our cockpits listening to Pat binding the ground station on the radio telephone [OED].
1959		D. Buckingham Wind Tunnel 73: Eddy’s been binding to Vic about you [OED].