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nick-bent

nick-bent adjective: engaging in homosexual relationships only while in prison and segregated from the opposite sex.

Adjective

nick-bent (not comparable)

  1. (UK, slang) Engaging in homosexual relationships only while in prison and segregated from the opposite sex.
    • More than once this caused all sorts of problems as the nick-bent women were picked up by the genuinely bent women, only to call the whole thing off when they got close to their release date.2006, Kevin Lewis, Kaitlyn

Questions about nick-bent

What does nick-bent mean?
Nick-bent means engaging in homosexual relationships only while in prison and segregated from the opposite sex.
What part of speech is nick-bent?
Nick-bent is an adjective.

Words near nick-bent in the dictionary

  1. nick or nothing
  2. nick point
  3. nick points
  4. nick translation
  5. nick up
  6. nick-bent
  7. nick-nack
  8. nick-nacks
  9. nick-name
  10. nick-names
  11. nick-of-time

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