bent

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of bend

adj

1. Folded or dented out of its usual shape.
2. (UK, colloquial)Corrupt, dishonest.
3. (UK, colloquial, derogatory)Homosexual.

   “Asked bluntly by Julie Webb of the NME whether he was “bent” in December 1974, Freddie answered evasively: “You're a crafty cow. […]””

4. (with-on)Determined or insistent; inclined, set.

   “He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.”

   “They were bent on mischief.”

   “[…]in the ape posse, bent on vengeance, traversing landscapes clothed in snow and bristling with California red fir and silver pine, spooking human stragglers, and running across fresh graves as they search for the nameless colonel and try to piece together why the humans are killing each other.”

5. Annoyed; out of sorts; having a bee in one's bonnet.

   “Near-synonym: butthurt”

   “She was bent about "certain kinds of people" having civil rights; she wanted to roll those back.”

6. leading a life of crime.
7. (slang)Inaccurately aimed.

   “That shot was so bent it left the pitch.”

8. (US, colloquial)Suffering from the bends.
9. (slang)High from both marijuana and alcohol.

   “Man, I am so bent right now!”

noun

1. An inclination or talent.

   “He had a natural bent for painting.”

   “the top of one's bent”

   “They fool me to the top of my bent.”

   ““The Kingdom of the Wicked” is not Mr. Burgess at the top of his bent. It is not schlock.”

2. A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.

   “His mind was of a technical bent.”

3. The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.

   “the bent of a bow”

   “the force they have in the discharge , according to several bents”

4. A declivity or slope, as of a hill.

   “Beneath the lowering brow, and on a bent, / The temple stood of Mars armipotent”

5. Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.

   “bents and turns of the matter”

6. A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
7. A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
8. Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.

   “the full bent and stress of the soul”

9. (countable, uncountable)Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.

   “His spear a bent, both stiff and strong.”

   “Gunga Dass gave me a double handful of dried bents which I thrust down the mouth of the lair to the right of his, and followed myself, feet foremost [...].”

   “Clusters of strong flowers rose everywhere above the coarse tussocks of bent.”

10. (countable, uncountable)Bentgrass (Agrostis spp.).
11. (countable, uncountable)A grassy area, grassland.

    “c. 1500, The Ballad of Chevy Chase Bowmen bickered upon the bent.”

12. (countable, uncountable)Old dried stalks of grasses.