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bender
CEFRC2
/ˈbɛndə/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches.
- 02
noun
Extra detailA bout of heavy drinking or drug use.
Examples
I had a fender bender on my way to work.
He's sleeping off last night's bender.
At a glance
Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsA device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle.
One who, or that which, bends.
A simple shelter, made using flexible branches or withies.
More examples
In contextHe's been out on a bender with his mates.
O yes, I'll do it — bender!
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.
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Origin
noun
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 ‘goi...