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bent
adjective- stolen US, 1930
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 21, 1949
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 26, 1950
- corrupt, crooked, criminal UK, 1914
The opposite of STRAIGHT - [M]uch thought is given to the causes of crime: i.e: why blokes go bent. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 41, 1956
- One of the worst things in the nick are the bent screws — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 63, 1958
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 27, 1996
- [A]ll I get offered is fifty kinds of bent gear. — Val McDermid, Keeping on the Right Side of the Law, p. 184, 1999
- unfaithful UK
- My bird’s gone bent. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 58, 1958
- sexually deviant UK, 1957
- Being tall I could pass for a foreign soldier, albeit a slightly bent one. — Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Red Light Districts of the World, p. 53, 2000
- homosexual UK, 1959
- — Eugene Landy, The Underground Dictionary, p. 32, 1971
- — Anon., Ring Smut’s Wet Dreams Interpreted, 1978
- — Maledicta, p. 229, 1979: “Kings and queens: linguistic and cultoral aspects of the terminology for gays”
- Does your family know you’re bent? — Armistead Maupin, Babycakes, p. 214, 1984
- drunk or drug-intoxicated US, 1833
- — Eugene Landy, The Underground Dictionary, p. 32, 1971
- CAMERON: Will Bogey get bent? MICHAEL: Are you kidding? He’ll piss himself with joy. — Ten Things I Hate About You, 1999
- ill-humoured; grouchy US
- — Miss Cone, The Slang Dictionary (Hawthorne High School), 1965
- spoiled, broken, out-of-order UK, 1930
- suffering from decompression sickness UK, 1984
▶ bent as a butcher’s hook
very corrupt, incontrovertibly criminal UK- — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
▶ bent as a nine-bob note- corrupt, crooked UK
In pre-decimalisation currency, ten-bob (ten shillings) was the only currency note for less than a pound value; a nine-bob note would have been an obvious forgery. - [H]e was a shrewd copper [policeman], bent as a nine-bob note, who made enough for a luxurious retirement. — Brian McDonald, Elephant Boys, p. 81, 2000
- ostentatiously homosexual UK
A sterling elaboration of BENT- “Bent as a nine-bob note. Rampant homosexual,” announces Gene, rolling the “r” with glee. — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 194, 2000
▶ bent as arseholes
corrupt, crooked UK- Somebody said coppers could be trusted in those days and they were right–trusted to be bent as arseholes. — Lenny McLean, The Guv’nor, p. 72, 1998
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