bent

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of metal e.g.

   bent nails

2. 2
   adj

   fixed in your purpose

   bent on going to the theater

3. 3
   noun

   a special way of doing something

   The team had a special bent when playing a game.

4. 4
   adj

   Homosexual.

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

5. 5
   adj

   Determined or insistent; inclined, set.

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

6. 6
   adj

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

   Near-synonym: butthurt

7. 7
   adj

   Inaccurately aimed.

   That shot was so bent it left the pitch.

8. 8
   adj

   High from both marijuana and alcohol.

   Man, I am so bent right now!

Etymology

From Middle English bent, benet, from Old English *beonot (attested only in place-names and personal names), from Proto-West Germanic *binut (“reed, rush”), of uncertain origin.