Bender

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Bender may refer to:

Fiction

• Bender (Futurama), a character on animated television series Futurama
• Bender, one who can manipulate a classical element in Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra
• Elaine Bender, detective from the television series Blue Murder
• Goodloe Bender, a character from the movie The Road to Wellville (based on a novel by T. C. Boyle)
• John Bender (character), 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)
• Bender (TV series), 1979 TV series produced by Terry Becker

People

• Bender (surname)

Places

• Bender, Moldova, also known as Bendery or Tighina
• Bender, California, a former settlement in Fresno County, California
• Bender Bayla District, a district of Bari, Somalia
• Bender, Saskatchewan, a ghost town in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada

Objects

• B-Bender, a guitar accessory that allows the player to change the pitch of one or more strings "on the fly"
• 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

Other uses

• Bender (rapper), a Canadian rapper, member of hip hop group Flight Distance, and former King of the Dot champion
• Bender (band), an American hard rock band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• FC Dinamo Bender, a Moldovan football club based in Bendery (also known as Tighina or Bender)
• Jeremy Bender, a song by progressive rock band Emerson Lake and Palmer from their album Tarkus.

Slang

• A binge drinking spree
• A curveball, a type of pitch thrown in baseball
• A male homosexual, in British derogatory slang
• Sixpence (British coin), in archaic British slang
• pitch bend controller on electronic keyboards and synthesizers

See also

• Bend (disambiguation)
• Benders (disambiguation)
• Bending (disambiguation)