Bender may refer to:
Slang
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Drinking binge
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Curveball
In baseball and softball, the curveball is a type of pitch thrown with a characteristic grip and hand movement that imparts forward spin to the ball, causing it to dive as it approaches the plate. Varieties of curveball include the 12–6 curve ...
, a type of pitch thrown in baseball
* Bender, a male
homosexual
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, in British derogatory slang
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Sixpence (British coin), 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
''The Road to Wellville'' is a 1993 novel by American author T. Coraghessan Boyle. Set in Battle Creek, Michigan, during the early days of breakfast cereals, the story includes a historical fictionalization of John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of ...
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John Bender (character)
''The Breakfast Club'' is a 1985 American teen coming-of-age comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes. It stars Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy. The ...
, from the 1985 film ''The Breakfast Club'' played by Judd Nelson
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Ostap Bender, 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
Terry is a unisex given name, derived from French Thierry and Theodoric. It can also be used as a diminutive nickname for the names Teresa or Theresa (feminine) or Terence or Terrier (masculine).
People
Male
* Terry Albritton (1955–2005), A ...
Places
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Bender, Moldova, a city
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Bender, Georgia Bender is an extinct town in Laurens County, in the U.S. state of Georgia.
History
A post office called Bender was established in 1891, and remained in operation until 1905. The community had a depot on the Macon, Dublin and Savannah Railroad.
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, United States, a ghost town
Music
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Bender (band), an American hard rock band
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Bender (rapper) (1980–2018), Canadian rapper
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Ariel Bender, pseudonym of British rock guitarist Luther Grosvenor
Other uses
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Bender (surname)
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FC Dinamo Bender, Moldovan football club based in Bender
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Bender Machine Works, an American machinery manufacturer
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Bender tent, a type of makeshift shelter made using bended tree branches
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Pipe and tube bender, 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, Labette County, Kansas, United States, from May 1871 to December 1872. The family consisted of John Bender, his wife Elvira, the ...
, a family of serial killers operating in Kansas in the 19th century.
See also
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B-Bender, 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)
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Benders (disambiguation)
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Bending (disambiguation)
Bending may refer to:
* Bending, the behavior of a structural element subjected to a lateral load
* Bending (metalworking), a sheet metalworking process used in manufacture
* Bending, the fictional ability of manipulation of the four classical el ...
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Bendor (disambiguation)
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