big bend

1. 1.

   a triangular area in southwestern Texas on the Mexican border; formed by a bend in the Rio Grande

   Broadergeographical area

   Part ofTexas

Questions about big bend

What does big bend mean?

big bend means "a triangular area in southwestern Texas on the Mexican border; formed by a bend in the Rio Grande".

Is big bend a common word?

big bend is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.