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gender bender
[ jen-der ben-der ]
noun
- Slang: Often Offensive. a person, as a crossdresser or transgender person, whose gender expression blurs differences between various sexual orientations and gender identities.
- something that challenges traditional societal norms related to gender:
Women play all the roles in this gender bender of a play.
gender-bender
noun
- informal.a person who adopts an androgynous style of dress, hair, make-up, etc
- a male-male or female-female adaptor, used esp for computer hardware
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Other Words From
- gender-bending adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gender bender1
First recorded in 1980–85
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Example Sentences
A highlight was the lone feline gender-bender: a brown male Bengal wearing a flared party skirt.
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