bent
IPA: bˈɛnt
noun
- An inclination or talent.
- A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
- The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
- A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
- Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
- (carpentry) A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
- Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
- Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
- Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
- Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
- A grassy area, grassland.
- The old dried stalks of grasses.
- A surname
adjective
- (Of something that is usually straight) Folded, dented.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest.
- (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly UK) Homosexual.
- Determined or insistent.
- (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
- (slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.
- (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
- (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
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