plural of Big Bad Wolf

An evil fictional wolf that appears in fairy tales or fables. / (figuratively) Someone blamed for causing problems; a scapegoat.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of give a bad name

(slang, idiomatic, Northeastern US) To be morbidly obese.

(literally) A day when one's hair seems unmanageable. / (idiomatic, by extension) A day when things seem to be unmanageable or go wrong.

(phonology) a phonemic split of the phoneme /æ/ into a short /æ/ and a long /æː/, as heard in some varieties of British and Australian English, in which "bad" is pronounced /bæːd/ and "lad" is pronounced /læd/

(set phrase) One who informs someone else of bad news.

(Ireland, archaic) A mild malediction; may (someone) have bad food.

(idiomatic) The past, seen as a time when things were worse.

(informal) A dilapidated area of a city where many people live in a state of poverty and in which crime is more common than in other portions of the city.