bender
a person or thing that bends, as a pair of pliers or a powered machine.
Slang. a drinking spree.
Baseball Slang. curve (def. 6a).
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How to use bender in a sentence
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.
‘Bookish People’ is the perfect summer read for book lovers | Kerri Maher | August 4, 2022 | Washington PostGlobal energy prices are on a bender, but policies to cut the economy’s climate footprint are only partially to blame.
California’s oil spill is proof that climate action is worth the cost | Tim McDonnell | October 4, 2021 | QuartzNdamukong 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.
The Bucs are set to defend their title, with no drama and a more carefree Tom Brady | Eric Adelson | September 9, 2021 | Washington PostAfter 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.
Tips for visiting U.S. national parks from someone who visited them all | Andrea Sachs | December 17, 2020 | Washington PostMy own parents reversed course after their buffet bender, trading in sundae stations for cans of SlimFast.
Fast-Food Buffets Are a Thing of the Past. Some Doubt They Ever Even Existed. | MM Carrigan | September 29, 2020 | Eater
In March 2013 in Washington, D.C., Seth bender got in the Uber he ordered and shortly thereafter committed the sin of burping.
Tarantino would name his production company with Lawrence bender, A Band Apart, after the film.
The Secrets of ‘Pulp Fiction’: 20 Things You Didn’t Know About the Movie on Its 20th Anniversary | Marlow Stern | October 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey have names like bender, Graflex, Hasselblad, Canon, Mamiya, and Globuscope.
In the struggle the gun fired the shot that killed John bender.
On the night of Jan. 8, 2010, bender allegedly brought one of their guns to their bedroom on the fourth floor of the mansion.
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.
The Soldier of the Valley | Nelson LloydMary finally yielded the point, and gathering up the crumpled jacket, started in quest of Billy bender.
The English Orphans | Mary Jane HolmesThe next time Mary raised her head they were opposite Mrs. bender's, where Sal declared it her intention to stop.
The English Orphans | Mary Jane HolmesBilly bender was standing near her, his arm thrown around her, and his lips occasionally pressing her forehead.
The English Orphans | Mary Jane HolmesYour friend, bender, gave me permission to visit the ‘hardened young criminal.’
Penny of Top Hill Trail | Belle Kanaris Maniates
British Dictionary definitions for bender
/ (ˈbɛndə) /
informal a drinking bout
British taboo, slang a male homosexual
informal a makeshift shelter constructed by placing tarpaulin or plastic sheeting over bent saplings or woven branches
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