break bad
/bɹæɪ̯k bæːd/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.02 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""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."
- "Half the bad men are only coltish cowpunchers gone wrong through rotten whiskey and luck breaking bad for them."
- "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."
- "Nah, come on, man! Some straight like you, giant stick up his ass, all of a sudden at age, what, sixty, he's just gonna break bad?"
- "My nephew was breaking bad, getting deeper into the crack trade, […]"
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /bɹæɪ̯k bæːd/