Bender may refer to:
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Drinking binge
Binge drinking, or heavy episodic drinking, is drinking alcoholic beverages with an intention of becoming intoxicated by heavy consumption of alcohol over a short period of time, but definitions ( see below) vary considerably.
Binge drinking ...
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Curveball, a type of pitch thrown in baseball
* Bender, a male
homosexual, in British derogatory slang
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Sixpence (British coin)
The British sixpence () piece, sometimes known as a tanner or sixpenny bit, was a denomination of sterling coinage worth of one pound or half of one shilling. It was first minted in 1551, during the reign of Edward VI, and circulated until 1 ...
, in archaic British slang
Fictional characters
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Bender (''Futurama''), a robot from the animated television series ''Futurama''
* Bender, one who can manipulate a classical element in the
''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' franchise
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Elaine Bender, detective from the television series ''Blue Murder''
* Goodloe Bender, from the movie ''
The Road to Wellville''
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John Bender (character), from the 1985 film ''The Breakfast Club'' played by Judd Nelson
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Ostap Bender
Ostap Bender (russian: Остап Бендер; in ''The Twelve Chairs'' he called himself Ostap-Suleyman-Berta-Maria-Bender- Bey, in ''The Little Golden Calf'' he called himself Bender-Zadunaysky, in later novels he was also called Ostap Ibragim ...
, a con man in novels by Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov
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''Bender'' (TV series), a 1979 TV series produced by
Terry Becker
Places
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Bender, Moldova
Bender (, Moldovan Cyrillic: Бендер) or Bendery (russian: Бендеры, , uk, Бендери), also known as Tighina ( ro, Tighina), is a city within the internationally recognized borders of Moldova under ''de facto'' control of the un ...
, a city
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Bender, Georgia, United States, a ghost town
Music
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Bender (band)
Bender was an American hard rock band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Bender had a local reach for some time before being signed onto TVT Records. The band has produced two albums, the first called ''Joe'' released in 1995, and later an album called ...
, an American hard rock band
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Bender (rapper)
Alexander Buchanan (July 19, 1980 – March 1, 2018), better known by his stage name Bender, was a Canadian rapper.
He was a member of the group Flight Distance and a former King of the Dot champion. Bender was also a professional visual artis ...
(1980–2018), Canadian rapper
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Ariel Bender
Luther James Grosvenor (born 23 December 1946) is an English rock musician, who played guitar in Spooky Tooth, briefly in Stealers Wheel and, under the pseudonym Ariel Bender, in Mott the Hoople and Widowmaker.
Grosvenor was born in Evesham ...
, pseudonym of British rock guitarist Luther Grosvenor
Other uses
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Bender (surname)
The surname Bender derives from both English and German origin.
In England, it derives from old ''Benden'' or ''Benbow''. In Germany, it is a form of ''Fassbinder'' or ''Fassbender'' ( Cooper). It is an occupational name in both English and German ...
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FC Dinamo Bender
Football Club Tighina is a Moldovan football club based in Bender (also known as ''Tighina''), Moldova.
History
During its existence, the club has been known by the following names:
* 1950—1958: ''Burevestnik Bender''
* In 1959: ''Lokomot ...
, Moldovan football club based in Bender
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Bender Machine Works The Bender Machine Works in Hayward, Wisconsin, is a dairy equipment manufacturer that played a major role in the history of the dairy farming business in the United States from the 1950s to the 1980s, producing milk pipeline and milk transfer cart ...
, an American machinery manufacturer
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Bender tent
A bender tent is a simple shelter. A bender is made using flexible branches or withies, such as those of hazel or willow. These are lodged in the ground, then bent and woven together to form a strong dome-shape. The dome is then covered using any t ...
, a type of makeshift shelter made using bended tree branches
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Pipe and tube bender
Tube bending is any metal forming processes used to permanently form pipes or tubing. Tube bending may be form-bound or use freeform-bending procedures, and it may use heat supported or cold forming procedures.
Form bound bending procedures lik ...
, a machine which bends tube, pipe and solid metals
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Bloody Benders
The Bender family, more well known as the Bloody Benders, were a family of serial killers in Labette County, Kansas, United States, from May 1871 to December 1872. The family consisted of John Bender, his wife Elvira, their son John Jr., and the ...
, a family of serial killers operating in Kansas in the 19th century.
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B-Bender
A B-Bender is a guitar accessory that enables a player to fluidly alter the pitch of a guitar's B-string. This works by mechanically bending the B-string through the use of a series of levers and/or pulleys attached to an external lever that is ...
, a guitar accessory that allows the player to change the pitch of one or more strings "on the fly"
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Bend (disambiguation)
Bend may refer to:
Materials
* Bend, a curvature in a pipe, tube, or pipeline (see Bend radius)
* Bend knot, a knot used to tie two ropes together; see List of bend knots
*Bending, the deformation of an object due to an applied load
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Benders (disambiguation)
The Benders were a Sydney jazz band.
Benders may also refer to:
* Bloody Benders, 1870s family of Kansas serial killers
* ''Benders'' (TV series), a 2015 American television series
* Benders decomposition in mathematical programming
People with ...
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Bending (disambiguation)
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Bendor (disambiguation)
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