bender

Noun

A wild drinking spree.
a tool for bending
- "he used pliers as a bender"
revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party
a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter
One who, or that which, bends.
A device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle.
A bout of heavy drinking.
A homosexual man.
A simple shelter, made using flexible branches or withies.
A suspended sentence.
A sixpence.
A spree, a frolic.
Something exceptional.

Intj

Used to express disbelief or doubt at what one has just heard.
Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.

Examples

After drawing all seven vowels, I felt like going on a bender.
He's been out on a bender with his mates.
O yes, I'll do it — bender!

Origin / 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.

Synonyms

booze-up, breaking ball, carousal, carouse, curve, curve ball, toot, I don't think, batter, bender tent, binge, bullshit, male homosexual, not, over the bender, over the left, over the left shoulder, spree

Scrabble Score: 9

bender: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
bender: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bender: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

bender: valid Words With Friends Word