fender bender

noun

: a minor automobile accident

Examples of fender bender in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

After a fender bender introduced Dee and Charlie to a pair of seemingly too-good-to-be-true rich siblings, we were primed for the other shoe to drop. — Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026

In another case, a father taking his son to school waited for a deputy after being involved with fender bender. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 21 May 2026

Matching the high-wire tempo of the first season’s inciting fender bender, this opening sets up the theme of the season. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026

The suit alleged that the NYPD’s former acting chief of staff and deputy communications chief, Tarik Sheppard, threatened to kill Donlon and leaked his wife’s arrest for a fender bender to the media. — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1962, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for fender bender

• recommender
• bartender
• contender
• defender
• engender
• extender
• offender
• pretender
• provender
• surrender
• suspender
• transgender