1. gone bad - Adjective
2. gone bad - Verb
gone bad
past participle of go bad
Of foods and commodities, having become spoiled, rotten, or otherwise unusable due to age or storage conditions.
Of a person or entity, having ceased to be reputable and having instead become delinquent, criminal, or poorly behaved.
Of a region or area, having become unsafe.
Of a delinquent or criminal act, having unexpectedly become more violent than is typical for that act—having resulted in an attack on a victim leading to serious injury or death.
a drug deal gone bad, a robbery gone bad
Synonym: gone wrong
A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk. James Joyce
You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music. James Patterson
Bentley said his granddaughter was shot and killed Saturday around 7:30 p.m. on the Clarksburg Trail, caught in the middle of a drug deal gone bad. Source: Internet
A mix of religion, good and evil, and pop-princesses gone bad; it was the creepy I wanted out of this book. Source: Internet
In the 1980s, use of crack cocaine became widespread, which produced collateral crime as addicts stole to finance their purchasing of additional drugs, and as dealers fought for the right to sell in particular regions, or over deals gone bad. Source: Internet
Mills was fired by Dolan in February because of the Kristaps Porzingis trade gone bad, but Perry survived. Source: Internet