Binger vs Bender - What's the difference?
binger | bender |
Someone who binges.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=2009-03-13, author=Christine Muhlke, title=The Talk, work=New York Times
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One who, or that which, bends.
A device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle.
(slang) A bout of heavy drinking.
* 1857 , Newspaper,'' April:Bartlett, ''Dictionary of Americanisms, Second Edition (1859),
*: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.
(chiefly, UK, slang, derogatory) A homosexual man.
A simple shelter, made using flexible branches or withies
(obsolete, UK, slang) A sixpence.
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(obsolete, slang, US) A spree, a frolic.
(obsolete, slang, US) Something exceptional.
* Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang,
As nouns the difference between binger and bender
is that binger is someone who binges while bender is one who, or that which, bends.As a proper noun Bender is
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(en noun)citation
Anagrams
* English agent nounsbender
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(en noun)- He's been out on a bender with his mates.
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Usage notes
In sense “bout of heavy drinking”, usually in form “on a bender ”.Synonyms
* (bout of heavy drinking) binge, spree, toot * (shelter) bender tentDerived terms
* conduit bender * pipe benderReferences
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