gender bender

gender bender

1. One who dresses and/or behaves in a manner or style associated with another gender. Tom works as an accountant during the week, but he has a performance routine as a gender bender on the weekend.
2. One who challenges, denies, or explores the borders or limitations of gender identity by various means. Some of the leading academic gender benders are gathering this week for a summit on transgender rights.
3. In electronics, an adapter that has either two male or two female connectors and is used to change the gender of a plug. If that's a male connector, we'll need to get a gender bender to finish this job.
See also: bender, gender
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

gender-bender

1. n. a device that changes electrical plugs or sockets to the opposite gender—male to female, female to male. You need what’s called a gender-bender to match those plugs.
2. mod. having to do with something that obscures male/female distinctions. Those gender-bender hairstyles can be confusing.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • gender-bender
  • keep (one) in line
  • keep in line
  • whigga
  • whigger
  • wigga
  • wigger
  • wangster
  • whangster
  • whankster
References in periodicals archive
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James Gilbert Sonja Sarah McVie Catherine Maureen Smith Alex Patricia Tedford </pre> <p>A gender bender in verse, "Swollen Tongues" is an attempt both to send up Restoration comedy and to be the main cheering section for lesbianism.
Swollen Tongues
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A Canadian, Berlin-based former school teacher, this provocative gender bender set out to shock but succeeded only in boring the pants off anyone in the crowd who wasn't gay or lesbian.
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"I have no gay friends," said the gender bender Scot.
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The gleeful prospect of the wide faced Portuguese gender bender's joyous reunion with her long lost dad dissolved because, it transpires, she hates him.
Big Brother: At last, the bit I enjoy, THE END of this dismal, sorry series
That's because the script will be by the man who created gender bender shows like Bob and Rose and Queer as Folk - Russell T Davies.
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"It has shown us that there are people--gay, straight, trans, bi, gender bender, etc.--who do care for and love each other, and it showed us how a community can come together."
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Celeb women's stalker 'jealous gender bender'
GENDER bender Marilyn has revealed more about his alleged gay fling with Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale.
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The singer provoked hysterical reactions for his androgynous "gender bender" look when he first appeared on Top Of The Pops with Culture Club.
George plans a Taboo musical
I don't think so.Thanks to the appallingly low standard of the remaining horrible housemates, the big Big Brother joke is that the preposterous Portuguese gender bender looks to be in pole position to win this pointless contest.
Big Brother: Mad Michelle carries on getting fat, fatter, tarty and terrifying
The 31-year-old dancer cracked jokes with his gender bender friends at an Amsterdam club - and even jumped on stage to strut his stuff for an adoring audience of homosexuals.
Spice v spite; JIMMY.. He whoops it up with his transvestite pals and shrugs: 'Mel's just a woman I don't love any more'
She is a fellow gender bender, and she will stand by him in his her-ness.
Mommy's busy