1. A tool for bending
   "he used pliers as a bender"
    
2. [informal] Revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party
   "The bender lasted well into the early hours of the morning";
   - carouse, carousal, toot [N. Amer], booze-up [Brit, informal]
    
3. A pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter
   "The pitcher's bender fooled the batter";
   - curve, curve ball [N. Amer], breaking ball
    
4. [Brit, offensive] A homosexual man
   "before he came out he'd never been called a bender";
   - gay man, gay, fagot [N. Amer, informal], faggot [informal], fag [informal], fairy [informal], pansy [informal], queen [informal], poof [informal], pouf [informal]

Derived forms: benders

Type of: adult male, bozo [N. Amer, informal], cat [N. Amer, informal], chappie [Brit, informal], delivery, gay, geezer [Brit, informal], guy [informal], hombre [N. Amer, informal], homophile [archaic], homosexual, man, pitch, revel, revelry, sod [informal], tool

Encyclopedia: Bender, Paul