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bad

1. mod. powerful; intense. This grass is bad!

2. mod. suitable; excellent; good. I got some new silks that are really bad.

See:

• a bad apple
• a bad carpenter blames his tools
• a bad egg
• a bad excuse is better than none
• a bad penny
• a bad penny always turns up
• a bad time
• a bad workman always blames his tools
• a bad workman blames his tools
• a hard time
• as bad as all that
• bad
• bad actor
• bad blood
• bad boy
• bad break
• bad bunch
• bad check
• bad company
• bad egg
• bad excuse is better than none
• bad form
• bad hair day
• bad iron
• bad joke
• bad lot
• bad luck
• Bad money drives out good
• bad mouth
• bad name
• bad news
• Bad news travels fast
• bad off
• bad omen
• bad paper
• bad penny
• bad penny always turns up
• bad rap
• bad shit
• bad sort
• bad sort, a
• bad taste in (one's) mouth
• bad time
• bad times
• bad to the bone
• bad trip
• bad trot
• bad word
• bad workers always blame their tools
• bad-ball hitter
• bad-mouth
• be bad news
• be half bad
• be in a bad way
• be in bad odor with
• be in bad odour with
• be in bad with (someone)
• be not half bad
• be the best of a bad bunch
• bearer of bad news
• best of a bad lot
• catch at a bad time
• come to a bad end
• come to an end
• do (someone) a bad turn
• feel bad
• Fire is a good servant but a bad master
• from bad to worse
• get in bad
• get in bad with
• get in bad with someone
• get on (someone's) bad side
• get on the bad side of (someone)
• give a bad name
• give a bad name to
• Give a dog a bad name
• give a dog a bad name and hang him
• give bad marks to
• give someone a bad time
• give up as a bad job
• go bad
• go from bad to worse
• good riddance
• got it bad
• hard cases make bad laws
• have a bad attitude
• have a bad case of the simples
• have a bad effect
• have a bad hair day
• have a bad time
• have got it bad
• Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper
• in (someone's) bad books
• in a bad light
• in a bad mood
• in a bad spot
• in a bad way
• in a fix
• in a good light
• in bad
• in bad faith
• in bad form
• in bad odor
• in bad shape
• in bad sorts
• in bad taste
• in bad with, be
• in someone's bad graces
• in the bad graces of
• it takes one bad apple to spoil the (whole) barrel
• it takes one bad apple to spoil the (whole) bunch
• it takes one bad apple to spoil the (whole) bushel
• leave a bad taste in mouth
• leave a bad taste in one's mouth
• make the best of
• make the best of a bad bargain
• make the best of a bad job
• make the best of a bad situation
• make the best of it
• Moving three times is as bad as a fire
• my bad
• not a bad sort
• not bad
• not half bad
• not so bad
• not too bad
• Nothing so bad but might have been worse
• off on the wrong foot
• on bad terms
• one bad apple spoils the (whole) barrel
• one bad apple spoils the (whole) bunch
• one bad apple spoils the (whole) bushel
• Peck's bad boy
• poor taste, in
• put down as bad
• rotten egg
• run of luck
• set an example
• so bad one can taste it
• streak of bad luck
• take the bad with the good
• that's too bad
• the breaks
• throw good money after bad
• too bad
• turn up
• turn up like a bad penny
• wicked bad
• with bad grace