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benders

benders is the plural of bender.

Meaning of bender

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 or drug use.
    • He's been out on a bender with his mates.
    Synonyms:
    batter, binge, spree, toot
  4. (UK, derogatory, slang) A homosexual man.
    • “So they're easy about having a bender in the house, are they, their lordships?”2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 6, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    male homosexual
  5. A simple shelter, made using flexible branches or withies.
    Synonyms:
    bender tent
  6. (UK, slang) A suspended sentence.
    • 'Oh and Gary, what happened in Ahmed?' 'Not guilty, sir.' 'Oh no! And Tredwell?' 'Bender.' 'Suspended sentence? So both walked. […]2015, Olly Jarvis, Death by Dangerous, page 81

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What is benders the plural of?
Benders is the plural of bender.

Words near benders in the dictionary

  1. bender
  2. bender tent
  3. bender tents
  4. benderizine
  5. Benderloch
  6. benders
  7. Bendersky
  8. Bendery
  9. bendest
  10. bendeth
  11. Bendetson

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