bender

[ ben-der ]

noun

1. a person or thing that bends, bend, as a pair of pliers or a powered machine.
2. Slang. a drinking spree.
3. Baseball Slang. curve ( def ).

bender

/ ˈbɛndə /

noun

1. informal.
   a drinking bout
2. taboo.
   a male homosexual
3. informal.
   a makeshift shelter constructed by placing tarpaulin or plastic sheeting over bent saplings or woven branches

Word History and Origins

Origin of bender¹

1200–50; Middle English (in surnames); bend ¹, -er ¹

Example Sentences

Chaucer blasts into the novel on a bender and a dwindling book tour, arguing cluelessly against widespread comparisons between himself and Sylvia Plath’s husband, Ted Hughes.

From Washington Post

Global energy prices are on a bender, but policies to cut the economy’s climate footprint are only partially to blame.

From Quartz

Ndamukong Suh — who arrived in Tampa with a reputation as a rule bender — has been so silently effective that it’s sometimes hard to remember he’s on the team.

From Washington Post

After his fiancee called off their wedding, he embarked on a national parks bender, visiting all 59 sites in 2016, the centennial year of the National Park Service.

From Washington Post

My own parents reversed course after their buffet bender, trading in sundae stations for cans of SlimFast.

From Eater

In March 2013 in Washington, D.C., Seth Bender got in the Uber he ordered and shortly thereafter committed the sin of burping.

From The Daily Beast

Tarantino would name his production company with Lawrence Bender, A Band Apart, after the film.

From The Daily Beast

They have names like Bender, Graflex, Hasselblad, Canon, Mamiya, and Globuscope.

From The Daily Beast

In the struggle the gun fired the shot that killed John Bender.

From The Daily Beast

On the night of Jan. 8, 2010, Bender allegedly brought one of their guns to their bedroom on the fourth floor of the mansion.

From The Daily Beast

The boy was hurt; my heart went out to him, for the memory of my own sock-ball and tickley-bender days came back to me.

From Project Gutenberg

Mary finally yielded the point, and gathering up the crumpled jacket, started in quest of Billy Bender.

From Project Gutenberg

The next time Mary raised her head they were opposite Mrs. Bender's, where Sal declared it her intention to stop.

From Project Gutenberg

Billy Bender was standing near her, his arm thrown around her, and his lips occasionally pressing her forehead.

From Project Gutenberg

Your friend, Bender, gave me permission to visit the ‘hardened young criminal.’

From Project Gutenberg