bagel bender

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bagel bender (plural bagel benders)

  1. (ethnic slur, slang) A Jew.
    • 1980, Sam Ross, Windy City, page 76:
      So I went to New York with the fox and lox crowd, the bagel benders, the shleppers, to hook an agent.
    • 2010, Mel Staley, A Deadly Settlement:
      “I'll be goddamned,” Tony said cursing, “Leave it up to some fucking bagel' bender [sic] to think of away of making money on someone's misfortune, and it's all legal?”
    • 2011, James Ellroy, American Tabloid, page 204:
      Kablkoff: "It's like you talking Yiddish. Everybody wants to think they're connected. Everybody wants to be in the loop."
      Mad Sal: "The Loop's downtown, you fat bagel bender."

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