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gender-bender

gender-bender is the alternative form of gender bender.

Meaning of gender bender

Noun

gender bender (plural gender benders)

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic) A person who dresses in the clothes of another sex, or in clothes which make their gender identity ambiguous.
  2. (broadly) An event where people are encouraged to dress in the clothes of another sex, even if they would normally not.
  3. A person capable of changing their physical sex.
  4. An instance of someone's physical sex being changed, usually via magic.

Forms of gender-bender

pluralgender-benders

Questions about gender-bender

What is gender-bender the alternative form of?
Gender-bender is the alternative form of gender bender.

Words near gender-bender in the dictionary

  1. gender-affirming
  2. gender-affirming surgeries
  3. gender-affirming surgery
  4. gender-baiting
  5. gender-balanced
  6. gender-bender
  7. gender-benders
  8. gender-binary
  9. gender-blind
  10. gender-critical
  11. gender-critical feminism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gender-bender (page history and authors); gender bender (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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