benderとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛndə/
• (General American) enPR: bĕnʹdər, IPA^(key): /ˈbɛndɚ/
• 韻: -ɛndə(ɹ)

名詞

bender (複数形 benders)

1. One who, or that which, bends.
2. A device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle.
3. (slang) A bout of heavy drinking.

   Synonyms: batter, binge

   He's been out on a bender with his mates.

   • 1857, Newspaper, April:^[3]

     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.

4. (chiefly UK, slang, derogatory) A homosexual man.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 6, in The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, →OCLC:

     “So they're easy about having a bender in the house, are they, their lordships?”

5. A simple shelter, made using flexible branches or withies.
6. (UK, slang) A suspended sentence.
   • 2015, Olly Jarvis, Death by Dangerous, page 81:

     'Oh and Gary, what happened in Ahmed?' 'Not guilty, sir.' 'Oh no! And Tredwell?' 'Bender.' 'Suspended sentence? So both walked. […]

   • 2019, Howard Williamson, Youth and Policy: Contexts and Consequences:

     He anticipated a prison sentence though he thought there was a slight possibility of 'getting off on a bender' (suspended sentence).

7. (obsolete, UK, slang) A sixpence.
   • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 42:

     What will you take to be paid out?’ said the butcher. ‘The regular chummage is two–and–six. Will you take three bob?’ ‘And a bender,’ suggested the clerical gentleman. ‘Well, I don’t mind that; it’s only twopence a piece more,’ said Mr. Martin. ‘What do you say, now? We’ll pay you out for three–and–sixpence a week. Come!’

8. (obsolete, slang, US) A spree, a frolic.
9. (obsolete, slang, US) Something exceptional.

使用する際の注意点

In sense “bout of heavy drinking”, usually in form “on a bender”.

同意語

• (bout of heavy drinking): binge, spree, toot
• (homosexual man): See Thesaurus:male homosexual
• (shelter): bender tent

派生語

間投詞

bender

1. (obsolete, 英国用法 スラング) Used to express disbelief or doubt at what one has just heard. [early 19th c.]
2. (obsolete, 英国用法 スラング) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically. [early 19th c.]

   O yes, I'll do it — bender!

同意語

• (disbelief): See Thesaurus:bullshit
• (sarcasm): I don't think, not
• over the bender, over the left, over the left shoulder

参照

• Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang, p. 96
• Eric Partridge (1949) A Dictionary of the Underworld, London: Macmillan Co.

アナグラム

• Berden, berend, rebend