bend : Idioms & Phrases

• adjective satellite informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
  loco; wacky; loopy; bats; haywire; nuts; balmy; kooky; nutty; barmy; around the bend; buggy; kookie; loony; whacky; crackers; daft; dotty; batty; cracked; fruity; bonkers.
  
  • it used to drive my husband balmy

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• noun a hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye)
  weaver's hitch; becket bend; weaver's knot.
  

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• noun diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left
  bend.
  

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• verb try very hard to please someone
  fall over backwards.
  
  • She falls over backwards when she sees her mother-in-law

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• noun a mark of bastardy; lines from top right to bottom left
  bar sinister.
  

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• (Her.), an honorable ordinary drawn from the sinister chief to the dexter base.

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• the thickest and strongest planks in her sides, more generally called wales. They have the beams, knees, and foothooks bolted to them. Also, the frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides; as, the midship bend.

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• noun grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens
  bent grass; bent.
  

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Bent" grass`

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1. (Bot.) Same as Bent, a kind of grass.

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• noun a hang performed with the elbows bent
  

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• adjective satellite fixed in your purpose
  dead set; bent; out to.
  
  • bent on going to the theater
  • dead set against intervening
  • out to win every event

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• noun grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens
  bent grass; bent.
  

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• noun a triangular area in southwestern Texas on the Mexican border; formed by a bend in the Rio Grande
  

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• noun a large national park in Texas featuring mountains and desert and canyons and wildlife
  

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• noun a curve or bend in the road that you cannot see around as you are driving
  blind curve.
  

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• noun common grass with slender stems and narrow leaves
  velvet bent; brown bent; Agrostis canina; dog bent; Rhode Island bent.
  

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• noun a knot used to connect the ends of two large ropes or hawsers
  

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• (Naut.), a kind of knot, used for bending together hawsers or other ropes.

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• noun common pasture or lawn grass spread by long runners
  Agrostis palustris; creeping bentgrass.
  

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• noun common grass with slender stems and narrow leaves
  velvet bent; brown bent; Agrostis canina; dog bent; Rhode Island bent.
  

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• noun a knot for tying a line to a spar or ring
  

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• (Naut.), a kind of insecure knot or hitch; a reef knot crossed the wrong way.

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• among women, an affected carriage of the body, the upper part being inclined forward. Collog.

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• noun a U-shaped bend in a road
  

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• the first notch, for the sear point to enter, in the tumbler of a gunlock; the halfcock notch.

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• noun a knot uniting the ends of two lines
  

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• adjective satellite recklessly determined
  
  • hell-bent on winning

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• noun exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles
  squatting; squat.
  

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• the broadest frame in a vessel. Weale.

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• adjective satellite intensely affecting the mind especially in producing hallucinations
  mind-blowing.
  

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• a pipe fitting for connecting the contiguous ends of two nearly parallel pipes lying alongside or one above another.

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• noun common grass with slender stems and narrow leaves
  velvet bent; brown bent; Agrostis canina; dog bent; Rhode Island bent.
  

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• adjective satellite informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
  loco; wacky; loopy; bats; haywire; nuts; balmy; kooky; nutty; barmy; around the bend; buggy; kookie; loony; whacky; crackers; daft; dotty; batty; cracked; fruity; bonkers.
  
  • it used to drive my husband balmy

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• noun a hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye)
  weaver's hitch; becket bend; weaver's knot.
  

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• (Naut.), a bend or hitch used for temporarily fastening a rope to the bight of another rope or to an eye.

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• noun a city in northern Indiana
  

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• to knit the brow, as in deep thought or in anger; to scowl; to frown.

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• to frown; to scowl.

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• noun common grass with slender stems and narrow leaves
  velvet bent; brown bent; Agrostis canina; dog bent; Rhode Island bent.
  

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• noun common grass with slender stems and narrow leaves
  velvet bent; brown bent; Agrostis canina; dog bent; Rhode Island bent.
  

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