bender

• However, for some inexplicable reason, despite all this racking of the brain, no serious research has been done into the commonest and most radical 'time bender* of them all, which is, of course, exercise. —  Gridlock
• The hoppers must have known their grand and mighty mind-bender was now only a nasty spray of goobers, because as soon as her party came up behind, they turned and fled altogether. —  Asimov's Science Fiction
• The man who murders because of the least affront-a fender bender, a barking dog. —  More Twisted Stories Vol II
• The only New Yorker who didn't seem like he wanted to go on a cheek-pinching bender was the old man in the hospital gown who cupped his cigarette and wheeled his IV cart out of the way to let us into our destination" the main entrance of the terminal wing of the New York Hospital Cancer Center. —  Step on a Crack
• "She got into a bad fender-bender," I explained. —  Tell No One

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