Colloquial Variant guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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intj
Used to express disbelief or doubt at what one has just heard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: British, obsolete, slang
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intj
Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: British, obsolete, slang
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name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A city and municipality of Moldova, under de-facto control of Transnistria.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: Tighina
Antonyms: none provided
noun
One who, or that which, bends.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A bout of heavy drinking or drug use.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Synonyms: batter, binge
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A homosexual man.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, derogatory, slang
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noun
A simple shelter, made using flexible branches or withies.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A suspended sentence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, slang
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noun
A sixpence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, obsolete, slang
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noun
A spree, a frolic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, obsolete, slang
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noun
Something exceptional.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, obsolete, slang
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noun
a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: curve, curve ball, breaking ball
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pitch, delivery
noun
revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: carouse, carousal, toot, booze-up
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: revel, revelry
noun
a tool for bending
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tool
History
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.
From bender; the name was given to someone who bent things.
Across languages
56 source translations are retained for this English entry.
