bagel bender

noun

A Jew.

Meanings

nounbagel bender (plural bagel benders)

plural bagel benders

  1. ethnicslangslurA Jew.

    So I went to New York with the fox and lox crowd, the bagel benders, the shleppers, to hook an agent.

    1980, Sam Ross, Windy City, page 76
    2 more examples

    “I'll be goddamned,” Tony said cursing, “Leave it up to some fucking bagel' bender ^([sic]) to think of away of making money on someone's misfortune, and it's all legal?”

    2010, Mel Staley, A Deadly Settlement

    Kablkoff: "It's like you talking Yiddish. Everybody wants to think they're connected. Everybody wants to be in the loop." Mad Sal: "The Loop's downtown, you fat bagel bender."

    2011, James Ellroy, American Tabloid, page 204
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