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ˈhell-bent, a. and adv. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
[hell n. 11 d, bent ppl. a. 3.]
‘Fiendishly’, doggedly, or recklessly determined (on or upon a certain course). Also advb. determinedly, recklessly.
1835Knickerbocker VI. 12 A large encampment of savages,..‘hell-bent on carnage’. 1840Pol. Song (Cent. Dict.), Maine went Hell-bent For Governor Kent. 1904Boston Herald 2 Aug. 6 The Populist Democrats are going ‘hell-bent’, as the old song says, for Roosevelt. 1910W. M. Raine B. O'Connor ii. 21, I know your kind—hell-bent to spend what you cash in. 1910C. E. Mulford Hopalong Cassidy xxviii. 184 As soon as we lick this aggregation of trouble-hunters, what's left will ride hell⁓bent for that valley. 1912L. J. Vance Destroying Angel ix, Unless you're hell-bent upon sticking around here. 1918C. E. Mulford Man fr. Bar-20 xv. 152, I was hell⁓bent to get down here,..an' now I'm hell-bent to get back again. 1926B. Cronin Red Dawson vi, Shaw sending the coach hell-bent round the curve of Jumping Lead. 1935A. Squire Sing Sing Doctor iii. 32 We'll always have people hell bent on doing what they want to. 1957Times 27 Dec. 6/1 Sir Edmund Hillary's message..went on to say: ‘We are heading hellbent for the Pole, God willing and crevasses permitting.’ 1967Spectator 24 Nov. 633/1 This report has been widely used to sustain the charge that the French government was hell-bent on feeding speculation against the pound. 1968Times 31 Oct. 11/3 It is now becoming..clear that an intelligent plan may have to be drawn, according to which those elements hell-bent on..embarrassing the School will have to be expelled from it. 1973Times 31 July 1/3 A minority of Unionist Party members..feel obliged to vote with those who are hell-bent on destroying the first democratically elected assembly the Ulster people have had since the dissolution of Stormont. |