Usually means: Not meeting acceptable standards, quality.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. bad, the bad: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bad: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bad, bad: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bad: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bad: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bad, bad: Wordnik
  7. bad: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bad: Wiktionary
  9. bad: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bad: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bad: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. BAD, the bad: Dictionary.com
  13. bad: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bad: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. BAD, Bad (David Guetta and Showtek song), Bad (David Guetta song), Bad (James Bay song), Bad (Michael Jackson album), Bad (Michael Jackson song), Bad (U2 song), Bad (Wale song), Bad (XXXTentacion song), Bad (album), Bad (economics), Bad (single), Bad (song), Bad (tour), Bad, Bad: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bad: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bad: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bad: Rhymezone
  19. Bad (nt), bad: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bad: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. BAD, bad: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Bad: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. bad: Free Dictionary
  24. bad: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. bad: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. bad: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. bad: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jazz Humor (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. BAD: bizterms.net
  3. Bad (disambiguation), Bad (song), bad: Legal dictionary
  4. Glossary of Spa Terms (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BAD: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. BAD, Bad (disambiguation), Bad (song): Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. BAD: Acronym Finder
  2. BAD: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. bad: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BAD: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. bad, bad, bad: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bad: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Bad: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. Bad: 1960's Slang
  6. B.A.D, Bad (Noun), b.a.d, the bad: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See bading as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Unfavorable; negative; not good.
adjective:  Not suitable or fitting.
adjective:  Not appropriate, of manners etc.
adjective:  Unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
adjective:  (chiefly applied to a person's state of health) Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
adjective:  (often childish) Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
adjective:  Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
adjective:  (sometimes childish) Evil; wicked.
adjective:  Faulty; not functional.
adjective:  (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
adjective:  (of breath) Malodorous; foul.
adjective:  False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
adjective:  Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
adjective:  Of poor physical appearance.
adjective:  (informal) Bold and daring.
adjective:  (slang) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
adjective:  (of a need, want, or pain) Severe, urgent.
adjective:  (US, slang) Overly promiscuous, licentious.
adjective:  (originally African-American Vernacular, slang, of a woman) Very attractive; hot, sexy.
adjective:  (slang, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.
adjective:  (Internet slang, sarcastic) Used without a copula to mock people who oppose something without having any real understanding of it.
adverb:  (now colloquial) Badly; poorly.
adverb:  (intensifier) Badly; severely, extremely, passionately, eagerly.
noun:  Something that is bad; a harm or evil.
noun:  (slang, with possessive determiner) Error; mistake.
noun:  (countable, uncountable, economics) An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good.
verb:  (British, dialect, transitive) To shell (a walnut).

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