Bender

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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 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 (1978)
• Airbender, Waterbender, Firebender, or Earthbender, in Avatar: The Last Airbender

Places

• Bender, California, in Fresno County
• Bender, Moldova (also known as Tighina) fourth-largest city in Moldova, currently controlled by Transnistrian authorities
• Bender Arena, a multi-purpose arena in Washington, D.C.
• Bender Hamlet, a Baron Maurice de Hirsch sponsored Jewish farm colony in the interlake region of Manitoba, Canada
• Bender Qassim International Airport

Objects

• B-Bender, 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 type of makeshift shelter made using bended tree branches
• Pipe and tube bender, a machine which bends tube, pipe and solid metals
• Mind Bender (Six Flags Over Georgia), a steel roller coaster

Slang

• An expression for a Binge drinking 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 in short amount of time.
• Former British slang for a sixpence
• A derogatory British slang for a male homosexual, derived from the practice of bending over to permit anal buggery
• An expression used in hockey for a player who cannot skate, as his ankles cave or bend in
• A curveball, a type of pitch thrown in baseball

Other

• Bender (band)
• Bender (surname)
• FC Dinamo Bender, a Moldovan football club based in Bendery (also known as Tighina or Bender)
• Gardner Bender, a manufacturer of professional electrician's tools and supplies

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