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.

Synonyms

• prang, bingle

Translations

minor car accident

• Bavarian: Buserer m
• Catalan: dobladora de parafang f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輕微擦撞／轻微擦撞

• Dutch: blikschade (nl) f
• Finnish: peltikolari (fi)
• French: accrochage (fr)
• German: Blechschaden (de) m
• Italian: strisciata (it) f
• Polish: stłuczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: arranhãozinho m
• Russian: небольшое (ru) (nebolʹšoje) ДТП (ru) n (DTP), мелкая (ru) (melkaja) ава́рия (ru) f (avárija)
• Spanish: topetón m, raspón m

See also

• crash
• wreck