Meaning

9 senses
  1. One who, or that which, bends.

  2. A device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle.

    Biegevorrichtung, Biegegerät

    трубогибtrubogib, трубогибочный стано́кtrubogibočnyj stanók

  3. (slang)A bout of heavy drinking or drug use.

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

    Saufgelage, Besäufnis, Sauftour

    попо́йкаpopójka, пья́нкаpʹjánka

  4. (UK, derogatory, slang)A homosexual man.

    Schwuler, Schwuchtel

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

  6. (UK, slang)A suspended sentence.

  7. (UK, obsolete, slang)A sixpence.

  8. (US, obsolete, slang)A spree, a frolic.

  9. (US, obsolete, slang)Something exceptional.

More definitions
  • a tool for bending
  • revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party
  • a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter

Examples

10 sentences
  1. Tom is on a bender.

    ruТом в запое.

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  2. He's sleeping off last night's bender.

    deNach dem Besäufnis der letzten Nacht schläft er jetzt seinen Rausch aus.

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  3. It was just a fender bender.

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  4. I had a fender bender on my way to work.

    ruПо дороге на работу я попал в небольшое ДТП.

    deIch hatte einen kleinen Unfall auf dem Weg zur Arbeit.

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  5. Tom is known to go on a bender every so often.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
device to help bending:
slang: bout of heavy drinking:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
device to help bending:
slang: bout of heavy drinking:
slang: homosexual man:

Forms

plural: benders
Singularbender
Pluralbenders

regular

Synonyms

12 synonyms
bout of heavy drinking:spreetoot
shelter:bender tent
homosexual man:male homosexual
Close in meaning

Word family

19 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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