fender-bender

fender-bender

See also: fender bender

English

Alternative forms

• fender bender

Noun

fender-bender (plural fender-benders)

1. (chiefly US) A minor accident involving at least one motor vehicle.

   My insurance went up even though all my accidents were just fender-benders.

Translations

minor car accident

Dutch: blikschade (nl) f Finnish: peltikolari (fi)

German: Blechschaden (de) m Polish: stłuczka (pl) f Russian: небольшое (ru) (nebolʹšoje) ДТП (ru) n (DTP), мелкая (ru) (melkaja) ава́рия (ru) f (avárija)

• French: accrochage (fr)

Synonyms

• prang, bingle

See also

• crash
• wreck