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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.



bender

/ ˈɛԻə /

noun

  1. informala drinking bout

  2. tabooa male homosexual

  3. informala 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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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of bender1

1200–50; Middle English (in surnames); bend 1, -er 1
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“A couple of weeks ago, we had like a two-week break off the tour, and I went on a mother— bender,” Lee told the audience at a concert in San Antonio.

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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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