wild bender
- noun
- Informal
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borrachera desenfrenada
- After finals week, the students went on a wild bender to celebrate.
Examples
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He woke up on Monday with no memory of the wild bender he had over the weekend.
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After a wild bender, he promised to never drink again.
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Stories of their last wild bender still make everyone laugh.
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Last weekend, I went on a wild bender with my friends.
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After finals week, the students went on a wild bender to celebrate.
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He woke up on Monday with no memory of the wild bender he had over the weekend.
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Last weekend, I went on a wild bender with my friends.
Synonyms
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A period of heavy drinking and partying that lasts several days
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A wild party with much drinking and sex
A loud party where people drink too much and act wild
A time when someone drinks too much alcohol
A lively, wild party or a quirky person who behaves wildly
Antonyms
How Wild
- Informal
- Slang
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun 'bender' already denotes a multi-day episode of heavy drinking, and the adjective 'wild' straightforwardly intensifies this to indicate loss of restraint or reckless behaviour; the combined meaning is a predictable modification of the noun by the adjective. This adjective+noun compositional pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Wild bender comes from bender, an old word for a long 'drinking spree', with wild meaning very uncontrolled. The picture is someone who 'bends' away from normal life and rules by partying and drinking hard, so a wild bender means a period of heavy drinking and reckless behavior.