around the bend

Questions about around the bend

What does around the bend mean?

around the bend means "informal or slang terms for mentally irregular".

What is another word for around the bend?

Close synonyms include balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is around the bend a common word?

around the bend is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.