Definition of "bender"

bender

/ˈbɛndə/

noun
plural benders
1. One who, or that which, bends.
2. A device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle.
3. (slang) A bout of heavy drinking.
  Quotations
  A couple of students of Williams College went over to North Adams on a bender. This would have been serious matter under the best of circumstances, but each returned with a “brick in his hat,” etc.
  1857, Newspaper, April
4. (chiefly UK, slang, derogatory) A homosexual man.
  Quotations
  “So they're easy about having a bender in the house, are they, their lordships?”
  2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 6, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing
5. A simple shelter, made using flexible branches or withies.
6. (UK, slang) A suspended sentence.
  Quotations
  'Oh and Gary, what happened in Ahmed?' 'Not guilty, sir.' 'Oh no! And Tredwell?' 'Bender.' 'Suspended sentence? So both walked. […]
  2015, Olly Jarvis, Death by Dangerous, page 81
  He anticipated a prison sentence though he thought there was a slight possibility of 'getting off on a bender' (suspended sentence).
  2019, Howard Williamson, Youth and Policy: Contexts and Consequences
7. (obsolete, UK, slang) A sixpence.
8. (obsolete, slang, US) A spree, a frolic.
9. (obsolete, slang, US) Something exceptional.
interjection
1. (obsolete, British slang) Used to express disbelief or doubt at what one has just heard.
2. (obsolete, British slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.

Definition of "bender"

bender

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