bender

noun · interjectionA2

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noun

Plural noun:

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.
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.
Đồng nghĩa: batter, binge
4.
(UK, derogatory, slang)(chiefly UK, slang, derogatory) A homosexual man.
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.

interjection

1.
(British, obsolete, slang)(obsolete, British slang) Used to express disbelief or doubt at what one has just heard.
2.
(British, obsolete, slang)(obsolete, British slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.
O yes, I'll do it — bender!

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Hypotheses: * 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 (bend one's elbow)) or perhaps from Scottish sense of “strong drinker”.