bent

bent

1. slang Dishonest, immoral, or corrupt; crooked. Primarily heard in UK. The gangs are a problem, but it's the bent cops you really have to watch out for. Everyone in this industry is bent. If you're not cheating the system, you're never going to get anywhere.
2. offensive slang Homosexual. Primarily heard in UK.
3. slang Strange, eccentric, or abnormal; queer. He was always coming out with these bent ideas that had no chance of working. I wouldn't listen to what your uncle says. He's always been a bit bent.
4. slang Intoxicated with drugs or alcohol, especially to the point of losing control. We were all so bent that we could barely walk in a straight line down the road. What on earth did we smoke last night? I've never been so bent in all my life!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bent

verb
See kinky

bent

1. mod. alcohol or drug intoxicated. I’ve never seen two guys so bent.
2. mod. dishonest; crooked. I’m afraid that Paul is a little bent. He cheats on his taxes.
3. mod. angry. He was so bent there was steam coming out of his ears.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (as) bent as a nine-bob note
  • as the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined
  • be hell-bent on
  • be hell-bent on something/on doing something
  • bend (one's)/the elbow
  • bend back
  • bend before (something)
  • bend down
  • bend forward
  • bend in
  • bend over
  • bend over backward(s)
  • bend the law
  • bend the rules
  • bent
  • bent cop
  • bent double
  • bent on
  • bent on (doing something)
  • bent on a splice
  • bent on doing
  • bent on something/on doing something
  • bent out of shape
  • get bent
  • get bent out of shape
  • hell-bent
  • hell-bent for
  • hell-bent for (something)
  • hell-bent for leather
  • kinky
  • ride hell (bent) for leather, to
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Bent faced complications on her right side after the surgery, specifically because of a tear in tissue near her spinal cord, the lawsuit states.
Bent says they then took Ramgahan's remains and placed them into plastic trash bags, which they threw into the Sindian River at high tide.
Bent thinning region (I) is on the outside bend where the thickness is reduced by 15% through estimation.
Start by calculating the arc of the bend, assuming the part will be bent around a mandrel that has the radius of the planned bend.
Aston Villa hitman Bent then converted his 12th goal in 15 games for Steve McClaren's men with a second-half penalty after Peter Clarke brought down Ryan Shotton.
Bent is also wanted by Crystal Palace but would is eager for a reunion with Alan Pardew after working with the Toon boss during his Charlton Athletic days.
FIRST CHOICE: Darren Bent is believed to be keen on a move to Newcastle
Striker Bent, who joined Villa for an initial PS18million, has been told he can leave the club this summer.
At this time Lambert prefers to have Belgian international Christian Benteke in the team ahead of Bent.
Bent was born in Cambridge in 1921 and grew up in Worcester, MA.
Bent normally tries to gauge the mood of his clubs by logging on to social networking website Twitter and engaging with fans.
The additional compressive stresses created by rubber pressure beneficially influences also formability of bent material.
Life of George Bent, Written From His Letters by George E.
Slow bending also helps titanium tubing with small radii to be bent.