Usually means: Curved or angled from straightness.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word bent:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. bent: Merriam-Webster
  2. bent, bent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bent, bent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bent, Bent, ben't, bent, bent: Wordnik
  7. bent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bent: Wiktionary
  9. bent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bent, bent: Dictionary.com
  13. bent (1), bent (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bent (TV series), Bent (band), Bent (chemistry), Bent (film), Bent (magazine), Bent (play), Bent (song), Bent (structural), Bent (surname), Bent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bent: Rhymezone
  19. bent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Bent: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. bent: FreeDictionary.org
  23. bent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. bent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. bent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Bent: Infoplease Dictionary
  27. bent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bent (disambiguation), bent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bent (disambiguation), bent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. bent: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. BENT: Acronym Finder
  3. bent: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bent: Botanical Name listing of Plants

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bent, bent: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bent: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 'Bent: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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

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