bender

Meaning

Noun

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.
4. (UK, derogatory, slang) 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.

Intj

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

Synonyms

booze-up

carouse

toot

curve ball

curve

breaking ball

carousal

bending machine

nippers

tipper

hicky

pipe bender

brake die

drinking session

binge

drinking bout

drinking-bout

hickey

party

🥳

pincers

screwball

spree

Translations

juerga

soûlerie

ελατήριο

Sauferei

Saufgelage

Schwuler

xala

Biegevorrichtung

Besäufnis

Biegegerät

Fest

πούστης

κλίνων

biture

xalesta

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbɛndə/

Etymology

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”.
* In Britain, for about four centuries, 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 two pence. This gave rise to the expression ‘going on a bender’.
* (interjection): From over the bender, referring to a person's arm (and sometimes accompanied by a gesture of the thumb backward over the shoulder); compare over the left shoulder.