Idiom
gender bender
Meaning
A person who dresses in the clothes of another sex, or in clothes which make their gender identity ambiguous.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The performer is a famous gender bender in the local theater scene.”
“The artist uses their style as a gender bender to challenge traditional ideas about how people should dress.”
“By adopting a gender bender aesthetic, the model intentionally blurred the lines between masculine and feminine fashion on the runway.”
Examples
simple
“The performer is a famous gender bender in the local theater scene.”
contextual
“The artist uses their style as a gender bender to challenge traditional ideas about how people should dress.”
complex
“By adopting a gender bender aesthetic, the model intentionally blurred the lines between masculine and feminine fashion on the runway.”
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