Bender Explained

Bender may refer to: a Surname (of German and English descent) or meaning to go on a binge.

Slang

• Drinking binge
• Curveball, a type of pitch thrown in baseball
• Bender, a male homosexual, in British derogatory slang
• Sixpence (British coin), in archaic British slang

Fictional characters

• 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
• Elaine Bender, detective from the television series Blue Murder
• Goodloe Bender, from the movie The Road to Wellville
• John Bender (character), from the 1985 film The Breakfast Club played by Judd Nelson
• Ostap Bender, a con man in novels by Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov
• Bender (TV series), a 1979 TV series produced by Terry Becker

Places

• Bender, Moldova, a city
• Bender, Georgia, United States, a ghost town

Music

• Bender (band), an American hard rock band
• Bender (rapper) (1980–2018), Canadian rapper
• Ariel Bender, pseudonym of British rock guitarist Luther Grosvenor

Other uses

• Bender (surname)
• FC Dinamo Bender, Moldovan football club based in Bender
• Bender tent, a type of makeshift shelter made using bended tree branches
• Pipe and tube bender, a machine which bends tube, pipe and solid metals
• Bloody Benders, a family of serial killers operating in Kansas in the 19th century.

See also

• B-Bender, a guitar accessory that allows the player to change the pitch of one or more strings "on the fly"
• Bend (disambiguation)
• Benders (disambiguation)
• Bending (disambiguation)
• Bendor (disambiguation)