Bender

Why are drinking sprees called benders? Thanks!

From the act of bending ones arm to down drinks?

From the perception that time bends and loses its linear nature after drinking for days at a time. It's life Jim, but not as we know it.

Oxmyx: Nobody helps nobody but himself.
Spock: Sir, you are employing a double negative.

Surely it is from the fact that I always emerge from a bender with the bends. "Pop me in the hyperbaric chamber, honey. I'll feel fine in no time."

All I could find was that "bender" was originally a nautical term for period of drunkeness and that the term probably came from the bending of the elbow.