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English

Etymology

bend +? -er. In sense of “heavy drinking”, originally generally “spree”, from 1846, of uncertain origin – vague contemporary sense of “something extraordinary”, connection to bend (e.g., bending elbow to drink) or perhaps from Scottish sense of “strong drinker”.

A sixpence was known as a bender because its silver content made it easy to bend in the hands. This was commonly done to create ‘love tokens’, many of which survive in collections to this day. The value of a sixpence was also enough to get thoroughly inebriated as taverns would often allow you to drink all day for tuppence. This gave rise to the expression ‘going on a bender’.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?nd?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)

Noun

bender (plural benders)

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

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

   • 1857, Newspaper, April:

     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.

4. (chiefly Britain, slang, derogatory) A homosexual man.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 6,

     “So they're easy about having a bender in the house, are they, their lordships?”

5. A simple shelter, made using flexible branches or withies
6. (Britain, slang) A suspended sentence.
   • 2015, Olly Jarvis, Death by Dangerous (page 81)

     'Oh and Gary, what happened in Ahmed?' 'Not guilty, sir.' 'Oh no! And Tredwell?' 'Bender.' 'Suspended sentence? So both walked. […]

   • 2019, Howard Williamson, Youth and Policy: Contexts and Consequences

     He anticipated a prison sentence though he thought there was a slight possibility of 'getting off on a bender' (suspended sentence).

7. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A sixpence.
8. (obsolete, slang, US) A spree, a frolic.
9. (obsolete, slang, US) Something exceptional.

Usage notes

In sense “bout of heavy drinking”, usually in form “on a bender”.

Synonyms

• (bout of heavy drinking): binge, spree, toot
• (homosexual man): See Thesaurus:male homosexual
• (shelter): bender tent

Derived terms

• conduit bender
• gender bender
• pipe bender

Translations

Interjection

bender

1. (obsolete, British slang) Used to express disbelief or doubt at what one has just heard. [early 19th c.]
2. (obsolete, British slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically. [early 19th c.]

Synonyms

• (disbelief): See Thesaurus:bullshit
• (sarcasm): I don't think, not

References

• Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang, p. 96
• Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of the Underworld, London, Macmillan Co., 1949

Anagrams

• Berden, berend, rebend

Aragonese

Etymology

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Verb

bender

1. (transitive) to sell

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) , “bender”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From Middle English bynder; equivalent to bind +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ba?nd?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ba?nd?/
• Rhymes: -a?nd?(?)

Noun

binder (plural binders)

1. Someone who binds
   1. Someone who binds books, bookbinder.
2. A cover or holder for unbound papers, pages etc.
3. Something that is used to bind things together, often referring to the mechanism that accomplishes this for a book.
4. (programming) A software mechanism that performs binding.
   • 2004, Paul Vick, The Visual Basic .NET Programming Language (page 389)

     The runtime binder considers inheritance and name hiding, and does overload resolution.

5. A dossier.
6. (agriculture) A machine used in harvesting that ties cut stalks of grain into a bundle.
7. (chemistry) A chemical or other substance that causes two other substances to form into one.
8. (law) A down payment on a piece of real property that secures the payor the right to purchase the property from the payee upon an agreement of terms.
9. (chiefly Minnesota) A rubber band.
10. Material or clothing used in binding or flattening the breasts.
11. (molecular biology) protein binder

Synonyms

• (chemical etc.) binding agent

Derived terms

• binder clip
• ring binder

Translations

Anagrams

• Birden, Bredin, bendir, brined, inbred, rebind

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English binder.

Noun

binder m

1. a mixture of bitumen and gravel etc. used in roadbuilding

Middle English

Noun

binder

1. Alternative form of bynder

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

binder

1. present tense of binde

Swedish

Verb

binder

1. present tense of binda.