What is the meaning of BENT AS-A-NINE-BOB-NOTE. Phrases containing BENT AS-A-NINE-BOB-NOTE
See meanings and uses of BENT AS-A-NINE-BOB-NOTE!Slangs & AI meanings
a skewed impression of reality. "You got me bent, I ain't like that." 2. to be high or drunk. "Jack got bent last night at that party." Lyrical reference: ALANIS MORISSETTE LYRICS - Bent 4 U "I have bent for you and I've deprived..."Â
Homosexual, or very corrupt.
Phrs. 1. Very odd, unusual. 2. Undoubtedly homosexual. Cf. 'bent as a nine bob note'.
Radio proword. Broken or inoperative, as in "My gadget is bent".
Wearing your best clothes. "There's a dance Saturday, so put on your best bib and tucker."
Positively homosexual. but with decimalization homosexual acts in 1971 became obsolete.
n. A nine millimeter semi-automatic pistol. "Man, you best stop mad dawging me or I'll whip out my nine and bust a cap in your #*^%!"Â
Phrs. A modern variation on 'bent as a nine bob note', see above.
Rent boy is slang for a male prostitute.
Clark Kent is London Cockney rhyming slang for corrupt (bent).
Bent is slang for dishonest; corrupt.Bent is slang for stolen (as applied to goods).Bent is slang for counterfeit.Bent is slang for crazy; mad.Bent is slang for sexually deviant, especially homosexual.
Duke of Kent is London Cockney rhyming slang for bent. Duke of Kent is London Cockney rhyming slang for rent.
Gob job is British slang for oral sex.
Bob was English slang for a shilling.
Nine is Australian slang for a −gallon beer keg. Nine is American slang for a mm calibre pistol.
Phrs. 1. Homosexual. See 'bent'. 2. Crooked, dishonest. A catch-phrase whose original meaning was version 2, but with the onset of 'bent' referring to homosexually has come to be heard more with regard to version 1. In British currency, a bob was a slang expression for a shilling (five pence) but with decimalization in 1971 became obsolete.There was never any such thing as a nine bob note, hence the simile. Cf. 'queer as a nine bob note' and 'camp as a row of tents'.
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a.
Resembling bent.
n.
A symbol representing nine units, as 9 or ix.
a.
Eight and one more; one less than ten; as, nine miles.
a.
Most advanced; most correct or complete; as, the best scholar; the best view of a subject.
v. i.
To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3.
n.
A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.
a.
Most; largest; as, the best part of a week.
v. t.
To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
a. & p. p.
Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.
n.
A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
a.
A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.
superl.
Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine.
v. t.
To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.
a.
Bent, like a bow.
v.
The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
a.
Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best road; the best cloth; the best abilities.
n.
To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.
a. & p. p.
Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
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