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- bad faith — intention to deceive; treachery or dishonesty (esp in the phrase in bad faith)
- bad lands — a deeply eroded barren region of SW South Dakota and NW Nebraska
- bad mouth — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- bad paper — a less-than-honorable discharge from military service.
- bad place — Midland and Southern U.S. hell.
- bad taste — lack of discernment
- bad thing — (jargon) (From the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the subject. This term is always capitalised, as in "Replacing all of the 9600-baud modems with bicycle couriers would be a Bad Thing". Opposite: Good Thing. British correspondents confirm that Bad Thing and Good Thing (and probably therefore Right Thing and Wrong Thing) come from the book referenced in the etymology, which discusses rulers who were Good Kings but Bad Things. This has apparently created a mainstream idiom on the British side of the pond.
- bad-mouth — If someone bad-mouths you, they say unpleasant things about you, especially when you are not there to defend yourself.
- bad-press — to act upon with steadily applied weight or force.
- bada-bing — an expression used to suggest that something can be done with no difficulty or delay
- badassery — (slang) The behaviour or quality of a badass.
- badgeless — without a badge
- badgering — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- badinages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badinage.
- badinerie — a name given in the 18th century to a type of quick, light movement in a suite
- badly off — If you are badly off, you are in a bad situation.
- badmashes — Plural form of badmash.
- badminton — Badminton is a game played by two or four players on a rectangular court with a high net across the middle. The players try to score points by hitting a small object called a shuttlecock across the net using a racket.
- badmouths — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth.
- baldheads — Plural form of baldhead.
- balladeer — a singer of ballads
- balladier — a person who sings ballads.
- balladist — someone who composes or performs ballads
- balladize — to make (something) into a ballad; write a ballad about.
- ballotade — a movement similar to a croupade except that the horse draws in its hind legs so that the iron of the shoes is visible.
- banner ad — A banner ad is a large advertisement on a website that stretches across the top or down the side of the window. It usually contains a link to the advertiser's website.
- barbadian — Barbadian means belonging or relating to Barbados or its people.
- barricade — A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest.
- barricado — a barricade.
- base head — a person who is addicted to cocaine
- base load — the more or less constant part of the total load on an electrical power-supply system
- bastinade — bastinado.
- bastinado — punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick
- beachhead — A beachhead is an area of land next to the sea or a river where an attacking force has taken control and can prepare to advance further inland.
- bead test — a laboratory test used in the identification of certain metals or metal constituents, in which a bead covered with the material is heated in a flame and cooled to observe its properties.
- bead tree — Barbados pride (def 1).
- bead-ruby — a N temperate liliaceous plant with small white bell-shaped flowers and small red berries
- beadblast — a jet of small glass beads blown from a nozzle under air or steam pressure
- beadflush — (of paneling) having panels flush with their stiles and rails and surrounded with a flush bead.
- beadhouse — an almshouse in which inhabitants were expected to pray for the soul of the founder
- beadledom — petty officialdom
- beady eye — keen watchfulness that may be somewhat hostile
- bedspread — A bedspread is a decorative cover which is put over a bed, on top of the sheets and blankets.
- bedsteads — Plural form of bedstead.
- bee bread — a mixture of pollen and honey stored by bees and fed to their young.
- bee-bread — a mixture of pollen and honey stored by bees and fed to their young.
- beef road — a road used for transporting cattle
- beheading — the action of decapitating someone
- bell toad — a frog, Ascaphus truei, of the northwestern U.S. and adjacent Canada, the male of which has its cloaca modified into a taillike copulatory organ.
- bierstadt — Albert1830-1902; U.S. painter, born in Germany