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bender
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Noun bender has 3 senses
- bender(n = noun.artifact) Array - a tool for bending; "he used pliers as a bender" is a kind of tool
- bender(n = noun.act) booze-up, carousal, carouse, toot - revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party; Array is a kind of revel, revelry
- bender(n = noun.act) breaking ball, curve, curve ball - a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter; Array is a kind of delivery, pitch
Derived forms verb bend3, verb bend1
Derived form verb bend2
CIDE DICTIONARY
bender, n.
- One who, or that which, bends. [1913 Webster]
- An instrument used for bending. [1913 Webster]
- A drunken spree. Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
- A sixpence. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
bender
bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat, binge, booze, bout, brannigan, bum, bust, carousal, carouse, celebration, compotation, debauch, drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, escapade, fling, guzzle, jag, lark, orgy, ploy, potation, pub-crawl, randan, randy, revel, soak, spree, symposium, tear, toot, wassail, wingdingROGET THESAURUS
bender
Drunkenness
N drunkenness, intemperance, drinking, inebriety, inebriation, ebriety, ebriosity, insobriety, intoxication, temulency, bibacity, wine bibbing, comtation, potation, deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations, bender, oinomania, dipsomania, delirium tremens, alcohol, alcoholism, mania a potu, drink, alcoholic drinks, blue ruin, grog, port wine, punch, punch bowl, cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl, drop, drop too much, dram, beer, aguardiente, apple brandy, applejack, brandy, brandy smash, chain lightning, champagne, cocktail, gin, ginsling, highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres, drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber, wine-bibber, lush, hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker, soaker, sponge, tun, love pot, toss pot, thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian, Bacchal, Bacchante, devotee to Bacchus, bum, guzzler, tavern haunter, drunk, tipsy, intoxicated, inebrious, inebriate, inebriated, in one's cups, in a state of intoxication, temulent, temulentive, bombed, smashed, fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated, flustered, disguised, groggy, beery, top-heavy, potvaliant, glorious, potulent, squiffy, overcome, overtaken, whittled, screwed, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up, lushy, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin, crapulous, dead drunk, woozy, buzzed, flush, flushed, inter pocula, in liquor, the worse for liquor, having had a drop too much, half seas over, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, under the table, drunk as a lord, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a piper, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as Chloe, drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow, drunken, bibacious, sottish, given to drink, addicted to drink, addicted to the bottle, toping, nunc est bibendum, Bacchus ever fair and young, drink down all unkindness, O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to.
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