Somthing that every man is affected with. It is a clinical disease that makes your penis bend to the left. In some cases its lets you hit places you've never felt before. Other times it just looks weird
An individual characterized as consistently operating under pressure while maintaining their charm & beauty. Derived from "the Bends," which is a type of sickness caused by rapid decompression.
"She's working 2 jobs & taking classes full-time, but you can't tell if she's tired or not. She always looks good. She's a bends babe, bro."
N. Decompression sickness, caused when a diver moves from a high-pressure environment to one of low pressure too rapidly, causing bubbles to form in their bloodstream as gases in pressurized, liquid form quickly revert to their natural state. Symptoms include: blotchy rashes, coughing spasms, dizziness, unconsciousness, and a bizarre inability to bend joints (hence, the phrase the bends).
Hours after the inexperienced diver rocketed from 200 feet to the surface of the ocean, he felt ill and discovered he was suffering from the bends.
i just want to say that #3 on the definition list is wrong.
Radiohead did not use 'the bends' as a metaphor for drugs - it was (quite an obvious, i thought) metaphor for their fast rise to the top and how it drove them crazy that everyone suddenly loved them for this one song and their frustration i guess at fake people who just wanted to be with them for their fame.
This is also implied in the EP My Iron Lung (Iron Lung being a metaphor for the song "Creep" incase you didn't catch that).
Where do we go from here?
The words are coming out all weird
Where are you now when I need you?
And who are my real friends?
Have they all got the bends?
From the Eagles hit, Hotel California. A clever play on words by Don Henley, sounds like Mercedes Benz but refers to it in a way that connotes decompression sickness, "the bends". The lady in question is so wealthy she's detached from reality to the extent that she has is a sickness.