plural benders
1
: one that bends
2
: spree
hungover after a weekend bender
3
baseball, informal
: curveball
… throws a nasty bender in the zone …—
Tim Kurkjian
Tim Kurkjian4
or bender tent British
: a simple shelter consisting of a framework of branches covered with a tarpaulin
The teenager had left to live in a bender, a home-made shelter in the woods …—Emma Cooney
Emma CooneySynonyms
Examples of bender in a Sentence
He went on a bender and was drunk all weekend.
didn't remember a thing after the all-night bender
Recent Examples on the Web
Over the next six weeks or so, a trillion cicadas will emerge across the Midwest and Southeast for a brief, raucous, once-in-a-lifetime bender.
—Tejal Rao, New York Times, 6 May 2024
He’s shown waking up nearly naked and bloody on a park bench, having clearly been on one hell of a bender the night before.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024
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Tejal Rao, New York Times, 6 May 2024
He’s shown waking up nearly naked and bloody on a park bench, having clearly been on one hell of a bender the night before.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024
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“Bender.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bender. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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