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
Positively homosexual. but with decimalization homosexual acts in 1971 became obsolete.
Homosexual, or very corrupt.
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.
Gob job is British slang for oral sex.
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'.
Phrs. A modern variation on 'bent as a nine bob note', see above.
Wearing your best clothes. "There's a dance Saturday, so put on your best bib and tucker."
Nine is Australian slang for a −gallon beer keg. Nine is American slang for a mm calibre pistol.
Rent boy is slang for a male prostitute.
Bob was English slang for a shilling.
Duke of Kent is London Cockney rhyming slang for bent. Duke of Kent is London Cockney rhyming slang for rent.
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
Clark Kent is London Cockney rhyming slang for corrupt (bent).
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. 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".
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superl.
Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine.
a.
Resembling bent.
v. t.
To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.
v.
The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
n.
To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.
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Most advanced; most correct or complete; as, the best scholar; the best view of a subject.
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A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.
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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.
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A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.
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Bent, like a bow.
n.
A symbol representing nine units, as 9 or ix.
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A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
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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Eight and one more; one less than ten; as, nine miles.
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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.
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.
v. i.
To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3.
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