Definition of "hell-bent" []

• Impetuously or recklessly determined to do or achieve something: was hell-bent on winning. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Why are you so hell-bent on spending time around me?"
• "When Dulles returned, he and Hoover met with a president hell-bent on turning the Middle East crisis into something constructive and permanent.30 Ike had long viewed the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors as the linchpin of any plan for a general reduction of Western-Arab tensions."
• "Francis Russell, special assistant to the secretary, met in advance with Ambassador Hussein and confirmed to the secretary that Nasser was “hell-bent” to go forward with the project, even though the Soviets had made no “firm offer.”"