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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

/ ˈɛԻə /

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of bender1

1200–50; Middle English (in surnames); bend 1, -er 1
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In the past, he's described it as a "really co-dependent lifestyle" that went from "bender to bender" as both sides "leveraged each other's shame against one another".

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Defense attorneys claimed that Lee was on a multiday drug-fueled bender, which would explain why he was agitated and violent the night he died.

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Rona wears the ’30s silk tank when a dreamy summer day morphs into first kisses at a nightclub — before benders and breakups.

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He struggles more when he can’t get his big bender in the zone.

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Trump has been on a bender with lies to deny that the big crowds and exuberance of the Harris campaign.

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