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Break bad

//bɹeɪk bæd// verb, slang

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  1. 1
    To go wrong; to go downhill. colloquial

    ""A woman came out from the East—Vermont, it was—and school-teaching was her line of business, only she hadn't been raised to it, and this was her first clatter at the game; but things had broke bad for her people, and ended in her pulling stakes and coming West all alone."

  2. 2
    To go bad; to turn toward immorality or crime. Midwestern-US, Southern-US, colloquial, especially

    "But somehow he broke bad when he was just a yearling boy, started running around at night with a bad crowd, drinking beer and wine, and fighting and getting in all kinds of trouble and wouldn't go to school."

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