go to the bad en · VERB
Meanings
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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 59:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| goes to the bad | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| going to the bad | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| went to the bad | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| gone to the bad | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |