Meanings
present singular third person goes to the bad · participle present going to the bad · past went to the bad · participle past gone to the bad
- Synonym of go bad (“to become delinquent or criminal”).
His career, though scholastic, was varied, and had included going to the bad and repenting thereafter.
1924 June 4, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter VII, in A Passage to India, London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC, part I (Mosque), page 59Synonyms: go bad
Synonyms & antonyms
verbSynonym of go bad (“to become delinquent or criminal”).
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