"bad" Definition

  1. “to go to the bad,” to deteriorate in character, to be ruined. _Virgil_ has an almost similar phrase, _in pejus ruere_, which means, by the way, to go to the worse.
  2. hard, difficult. Word in use among sporting men who say, “He will be BAD to beat,” when they mean that the man or horse to whom they refer will about win.

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Position in the dictionary: 72 of 4022 slang words.
Next words in the dictionary: bad egg, bad lot, bad words, badger, badminton, baffaty, bag, bagman, bags, baked
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