bender

plural benders

1. One who, or that which, bends.
2. A device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle.
3. slangA bout of heavy drinking or drug use.

   He's been out on a bender with his mates.

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   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

   "Wait, is this about the other night when you two lightweights totally went on that bender?"

   2005 August 23, Haley Hazelton, Misfile (webcomic), 2005-08-23

   We can have a mad one, we can have a bender / Order what you want from the bartender / Come back to mine and all be splender / I'll give you a night to remember

   2016 February 14, Joseph Adenuga, Darren Dixon, Tariq Devega, “Ladies Hit Squad” (track 6), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta ft. D Double E and ASAP Nast, Boy Better Know

   I've really been on a bender and it shows

   2006, My Chemical Romance, “The Sharpest Lives”, in The Black Parade

   Synonyms: batter, binge, binge, spree, toot

4. UKderogatoryslangA homosexual man.

   “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 […], London: Picador, →ISBN

   Synonyms: male homosexual

5. A simple shelter, made using flexible branches or withies.

   Synonyms: bender tent

6. UKslangA suspended sentence.

   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

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   '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

7. UKobsoleteslangA sixpence.

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   What will you take to be paid out?’ said the butcher. ‘The regular chummage is two–and–six. Will you take three bob?’ ‘And a bender,’ suggested the clerical gentleman. ‘Well, I don’t mind that; it’s only twopence a piece more,’ said Mr. Martin. ‘What do you say, now? We’ll pay you out for three–and–sixpence a week. Come!’

   1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 42

8. USobsoleteslangA spree, a frolic.
9. USobsoleteslangSomething exceptional.

1. BritishobsoleteslangUsed to express disbelief or doubt at what one has just heard.First known use early 19th c.

   Synonyms: bullshit

2. BritishobsoleteslangUsed to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.First known use early 19th c.

   O yes, I'll do it — bender!

1. A surname.

alternative Bendery

1. A city and municipality of Moldova, under de-facto control of Transnistria.

   Synonyms: Tighina