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Definition of bender in English: bendernoun ˈbɛndəˈbɛndər 1An object or person that bends something. Example sentencesExamples - Unfortunately, we are perceived as focusing mostly on debunking the silly stuff like UFOs, spoon benders, and psychic spiritualists.
- The exhaust pipes are apparently a fine example of the pipe bender's art.
- We have good wire benders and thus headpieces are always done here, but some things come from overseas.
- The university's Sunday afternoon sessions are where some of the area's most buffed and ruthless body benders tear off their moves.
- Spoon bender Uri hit the headlines this weekend when it was revealed that his good friend, the pop star Michael Jackson, is to be best man at his wedding.
- We've got steel, the raw material, we've got the forgers, we've got the casters, the benders, the twisters and the fabricators.
- Rather than being an introduction to ghosts and spoon benders, it turned out to be a lesson for me in the value of testing ideas and critical thinking.
- Thus, field soldiers and civilian metal and electron benders were in the driver's seat - they could literally build their own division to meet General Meyer's concept and his timelines.
- Remember that what we are talking about here is not side-show illusionist trickery or spoon benders.
- Working with English metal benders, the professor of experimental physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, has devised extensive methods of guarding against conscious or unconscious fraud.
- We are blessed with the presence of great actors and entertainers, great writers, artists, filmmakers, panmen, wire benders and even photographers.
- There are department-store tents of amateur watercolourists, amateur kiddie crocheters, flower dryers, mud turners, cancerous candle makers, rag-doll knotters and metal benders.
2informal A wild drinking spree. he went off on a self-destructive bender Example sentencesExamples - Victory will not be followed by the drinking benders of old, though.
- Well, how many of those children were sent down the path of a life of crime by fathers abusing them while on alcoholic benders?
- ‘Ally, Rock's an alcoholic and his benders were getting way too out of hand,’ Leonard explained softly.
- It's the first night of the annual Mardi Gras, a three-day bender that, according to the head of the local Oxfam team, acts ‘as a kind of therapy, a release’ for the people of one of the poorest countries in the world.
- However, I had been on a hard drinking bender for the whole weekend.
- An accomplished master of the month-long bender, his genteel appearance belies his taste for corn liquor and high proof moonshine.
- He went on long benders, landed in detox wards, returned to his studio and soon fell off the wagon again.
- They'd go up to Charleston on these two- and three-day benders when they'd get paid.
- It was a great vacation, but I was thoroughly exhausted and hungover from the five-day bender that I've come to associate with people's nuptials.
- A lost weekend is a keenly social event that largely plays out in bars, so you won't need to lay in the kind of alcohol stores you'd need for a bender.
- I guess this gives me a shoddy excuse to embark on a weeklong bender of hard drinking, dire self-examination and monstrous self-pity.
- She was hardly ever photographed without a drink in her hand, and her benders were infamous.
- This could be because of a weekend drinking bender, or it's more likely because the story is tremendously forgettable.
- That's why you went on such a bender the other night.
- At one point a couple of years ago, he says, he thought about ending it all, going out after one last amazing, self-destructive bender.
- Dad had a drink problem when we were kids and would go on benders that could last a few days so we were left with no money to buy food.
- He was always witty when waking up from a bender.
- He also remembered the dark and lonely nights he and his mother spent waiting for Herb to return from one of his frequent three-day benders.
- He said he had been on a bender all day and that he should not be drinking and driving.
3British offensive, informal A male homosexual. 4British A shelter made by covering a framework of bent branches with canvas or tarpaulin. we lived underneath this bender we built in the woods Example sentencesExamples - The 7 boys built and slept in a 20 foot high tepee, and the 3 girls made a bender.
- I slept in the bender we had erected for work parties after we had purchased the land in December.
- I can honestly say I've never slept in a bender, and I never intend to.
- If you've never slept in a bender, you MUST.
Origin Late 15th century (denoting instruments such as pliers, for bending things): from bend1 + -er1. Rhymes addenda, agenda, amender, ascender, attender, blender, Brenda, contender, corrigenda, descender, engender, extender, fazenda, fender, gender, Glenda, Gwenda, hacienda, Länder, lender, mender, offender, pudenda, recommender, referenda, render, sender, slender, spender, splendour (US splendor), surrender, suspender, tender, Venda, weekender, Wenda Definition of bender in US English: bendernounˈbendərˈbɛndər informal 1usually in combination An object or person that bends something else. Example sentencesExamples - We are blessed with the presence of great actors and entertainers, great writers, artists, filmmakers, panmen, wire benders and even photographers.
- Rather than being an introduction to ghosts and spoon benders, it turned out to be a lesson for me in the value of testing ideas and critical thinking.
- We have good wire benders and thus headpieces are always done here, but some things come from overseas.
- The exhaust pipes are apparently a fine example of the pipe bender's art.
- Working with English metal benders, the professor of experimental physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, has devised extensive methods of guarding against conscious or unconscious fraud.
- Spoon bender Uri hit the headlines this weekend when it was revealed that his good friend, the pop star Michael Jackson, is to be best man at his wedding.
- There are department-store tents of amateur watercolourists, amateur kiddie crocheters, flower dryers, mud turners, cancerous candle makers, rag-doll knotters and metal benders.
- The university's Sunday afternoon sessions are where some of the area's most buffed and ruthless body benders tear off their moves.
- We've got steel, the raw material, we've got the forgers, we've got the casters, the benders, the twisters and the fabricators.
- Remember that what we are talking about here is not side-show illusionist trickery or spoon benders.
- Unfortunately, we are perceived as focusing mostly on debunking the silly stuff like UFOs, spoon benders, and psychic spiritualists.
- Thus, field soldiers and civilian metal and electron benders were in the driver's seat - they could literally build their own division to meet General Meyer's concept and his timelines.
2A wild drinking spree. Example sentencesExamples - However, I had been on a hard drinking bender for the whole weekend.
- He went on long benders, landed in detox wards, returned to his studio and soon fell off the wagon again.
- It was a great vacation, but I was thoroughly exhausted and hungover from the five-day bender that I've come to associate with people's nuptials.
- He said he had been on a bender all day and that he should not be drinking and driving.
- She was hardly ever photographed without a drink in her hand, and her benders were infamous.
- That's why you went on such a bender the other night.
- He also remembered the dark and lonely nights he and his mother spent waiting for Herb to return from one of his frequent three-day benders.
- It's the first night of the annual Mardi Gras, a three-day bender that, according to the head of the local Oxfam team, acts ‘as a kind of therapy, a release’ for the people of one of the poorest countries in the world.
- I guess this gives me a shoddy excuse to embark on a weeklong bender of hard drinking, dire self-examination and monstrous self-pity.
- He was always witty when waking up from a bender.
- This could be because of a weekend drinking bender, or it's more likely because the story is tremendously forgettable.
- ‘Ally, Rock's an alcoholic and his benders were getting way too out of hand,’ Leonard explained softly.
- Well, how many of those children were sent down the path of a life of crime by fathers abusing them while on alcoholic benders?
- Victory will not be followed by the drinking benders of old, though.
- Dad had a drink problem when we were kids and would go on benders that could last a few days so we were left with no money to buy food.
- A lost weekend is a keenly social event that largely plays out in bars, so you won't need to lay in the kind of alcohol stores you'd need for a bender.
- At one point a couple of years ago, he says, he thought about ending it all, going out after one last amazing, self-destructive bender.
- They'd go up to Charleston on these two- and three-day benders when they'd get paid.
- An accomplished master of the month-long bender, his genteel appearance belies his taste for corn liquor and high proof moonshine.
Origin Late 15th century (denoting instruments such as pliers, for bending things): from bend + -er. |