fender bender

noun

: a minor automobile accident

Examples of fender bender in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The vehicles still had relatively few incidents, and most were fender benders, according to a Times review of autonomous vehicle crash data filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. — Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026

An Ohio woman who dragged a DoorDash driver to his death following a fender bender in a grocery store parking lot was sentenced last week to up to 5½ years in prison. — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026

What are known as Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, like automatic emergency braking, have successfully cut down on the number of minor, low-speed fender benders. — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

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

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