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Bender may refer to:
Fiction
- Bender Bending Rodríguez, a character on Futurama
- Elaine Bender, detective from Blue Murder
- John Bender, a character from the 1985 film The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American teen drama written and directed by John Hughes. The storyline follows five teenagers as they spend a Saturday in detention together and come to realize that they are all deeper than their respective stereotypes. The film has become a cult classic, a defining film of the 1980s, and has had a tremendous played by Judd Nelson
- Ostap Bender, a fictional antihero by Ilf and Petrov
- Sally Bender Hyde, film character played by Jane Fonda in Coming Home Coming Home is a 1978 American drama film which tells the story of an injured Vietnam War veteran's difficulty in re-entering civilian life after his return from the war. It stars Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Robert Carradine and Robert Ginty (1978)
- Airbender Avatar: The Last Airbender is an American animated television series that aired for three seasons on Nickelodeon and the Nicktoons Network. The series was created and produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, who served as executive producers along with Aaron Ehasz. Avatar is set in an Asian-influenced world of Chinese martial arts, Waterbender, Firebender, or Earthbender, in Avatar: The Last Airbender
Objects
- B-Bender B-Bender is a guitar accessory that enables a player to mechanically bend the B-string up a whole tone to C-sharp. There are several different designs, but all use levers or pulleys inside or outside the guitar body that are activated by a pull or push of the guitar neck, body, or bridge. The resulting tone sounds much like a pedal steel guitar, a guitar accessory that allows the player to change the pitch of one or more strings "on the fly"
- Bending brake, a sheet metal bender machine
- Bender tent A bender tent is a simple shelter. A bender is made using bendy 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 tarpaulin available. These tents can be heated during the winter using a woodburning stove, and they are, a type of makeshift shelter made using bended tree branches
- Pipe and tube bender Tube and pipe benders are machines which bend tube, pipe and solid metals. Pipe bending machines can either be human powered, hydraulic assisted, or hydraulic motor driven. In the pipe bending operation the tube may be supported internally or externally to preserve the cross section of the pipe. In operations where there is flexibility in the, a machine which bends tube, pipe and solid metals
- Mind Bender (Six Flags Over Georgia), a steel roller coaster
- Bender-Gestalt Test The Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test, or simply the Bender-Gestalt test, is a psychological test first developed by child neuropsychiatrist Lauretta Bender. The test is used to evaluate "visual-motor maturity", to screen for developmental disorders, or to assess neurological function or brain damage creating by a child neuropsychiatrist Lauretta Bender Lauretta Bender, M.D. was a child neuropsychiatrist, best known as the creator of the Bender-Gestalt Test
Slang
- An expression for a Binge drinking Binge drinking is the modern definition of drinking alcoholic beverages with the primary intention of becoming intoxicated by heavy consumption of alcohol over a short period of time. It is a kind of purposeful drinking style that is popular in several countries worldwide, and overlaps somewhat with social drinking since it is often done in groups spree, referring to the act of bending over to vomit, or now used also for going on a legal or illegal binge drug spree, such as large use of cocaine or heroin over a long period of time.
- Former British slang for a sixpence The sixpence, known colloquially as the tanner or half-shilling, was a British pre-decimal coin worth six pence, 40th of a pound sterling
- A derogatory British slang for a male homosexual Homosexuality is romantic or sexual attraction or behavior among members of the same sex/gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality refers to "an enduring pattern of or disposition to experience sexual, affectional, or romantic attractions primarily to" people of the same sex; "it also refers to an individual’s sense of, derived from the practice of bending over to permit buggery
- An expression used in hockey for a player who cannot skate, as his ankles cave or bend in
- A curveball The curveball, is a type of pitch in baseball thrown with a characteristic grip and hand movement that imparts forward spin to the ball. It is therefore considered a type of breaking ball, a type of pitch thrown in baseball
- Slang golf term originating in upstate NY. In a competition for lowest number of putts, leaving a ball just off the green is referred to as a Bender. Putting the ball into the hole from off the green is called a double bender.
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