bad
     adj 1: having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report
            card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression";
            "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad
            cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the
            reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad
            light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" [ant:
             {good}]
     2: very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big
        (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm" [syn: {big}]
     3: feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally
        used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she
        felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless
        night" [syn: {tough}]
     4: (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad
        meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food" [syn: {spoiled},
         {spoilt}]
     5: not capable of being collected; "a bad (or uncollectible)
        debt" [syn: {uncollectible}]
     6: below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess
        player"; "a bad recital"
     7: nonstandard; "so-called bad grammar"
     8: not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high
        risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much
        can't help being risky"; "speculative business
        enterprises" [syn: {insecure}, {risky}, {high-risk}, {speculative}]
     9: physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad
        heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth"
        [syn: {unfit}, {unsound}]
     10: capable of harming; "bad habits"; "bad air"; "smoking is bad
         for you"
     11: keenly sorry or regretful; "felt bad about letting the team
         down"; "was sorry that she had treated him so badly";
         "felt bad about breaking the vase" [syn: {sorry}]
     12: characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad
         life" [syn: {immoral}]
     13: reproduced fraudulently; "like a bad penny..."; "a forged
         twenty dollar bill" [syn: {forged}]
     14: not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a
         defective appliance" [syn: {defective}]
     n : that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or
         decency; "take the bad with the good" [syn: {badness}]
         [ant: {good}, {good}]
     adv 1: with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for
            `badly'); "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were
            badly shaken"; "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad"
            [syn: {badly}]
     2: very much; strongly; "I wanted it badly enough to work hard
        for it"; "the cables had sagged badly"; "they were badly
        in need of help"; "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste
        it" [syn: {badly}]
     [also: {worst}, {worse}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0

BAD /B-A-D/ adj. [IBM: acronym, `Broken As Designed'] Said of a program
   that is {bogus} because of bad design and misfeatures rather than
   because of bugginess. See {working as designed}.


Source: The Jargon File

BAD
     Broken As Designed (slang)
     
     
Source: Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms