bender

Etymology
Hypotheses:
 * . In sense of “heavy drinking”, originally generally “spree”, from 1846, of uncertain origin – vague contemporary sense of “something extraordinary”, connection to (e.g., bending elbow to drink) 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’.
 * From, referring to a person's arm (and sometimes accompanied by a gesture of the thumb backward over the shoulder); compare.

Noun

 * 1) One who, or that which, bends.
 * 2) A device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle.
 * 3)  A bout of heavy drinking.
 * He's been out on a bender with his mates.
 * 1) * 1857, Newspaper, April:
 * 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.
 * 1)  A homosexual man.
 * 2) A simple shelter, made using flexible branches or withies.
 * 3)  A suspended sentence.
 * 4)  A sixpence.
 * 5)  A spree, a frolic.
 * 6)  Something exceptional.
 * 1)  A sixpence.
 * 2)  A spree, a frolic.
 * 3)  Something exceptional.
 * 1)  A spree, a frolic.
 * 2)  Something exceptional.

Usage notes
In sense “bout of heavy drinking”, usually in form “on a bender”.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: огъвач
 * Spanish: doblador, dobladora
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian: огъвач
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: taivutin
 * German: Biegevorrichtung, Biegegerät
 * Russian:, трубогибочный стано́к
 * Spanish: dobladora, curvadora


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Dutch: boemelpartij, doorzakfeestje,
 * Finnish:
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 * German:, ,
 * Italian:
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Verb

 * 1)  to sell