I've also run across the line in some song or other that "he was either broke or badly bent."

We didn't use this expression in the small public high school that I went to in Maine. We weren't that sophisticated. We had to make do with "fuck off!"

We did have a strange word that I never did figure out what it meant: "muff it!" There were "muffers" and it generally wasn't supposed to be good if one "muffed it."

Cheerily,
Charley Noble