fender bender

noun

: a minor automobile accident

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The minor fender bender happened at 3 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, at an intersection in Columbus, Bartholomew County Sheriff Chris Lane said in a Facebook post. Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2025 Get enough data, do some math, and scientists can figure out with astounding precision whether the Earth will suffer a cosmic fender bender decades into the future. Bryan Walsh, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 Two men have been charged in connection with a Nov. 17 robbery in Oakland that fit a pattern of East Bay incidents involving deliberate fender benders, court records show. Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025 Without Diane around, Matt and Riley struggle to live under one roof — and when Matt takes it upon himself to try and teach his grandson how to drive, resulting in a very predictable fender bender, Riley is ready to hightail it out of there. Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 8 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fender bender

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1962, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of fender bender was circa 1962

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“Fender bender.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fender%20bender. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.

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