Usually means: Unfavorable information causing disappointment, distress.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word bad news:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. bad news: Merriam-Webster
  2. bad news: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bad news: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bad news: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bad-news: Wordnik
  6. bad news: Wiktionary
  7. bad news: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. bad news: Dictionary.com
  9. Bad News (Bad News album), Bad News (Bastille song), Bad News (How I Met Your Mother), Bad News (band), Bad News, Bad news (Bastille song), Bad news: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. bad news: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. bad news: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  12. bad news: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bad news: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bad news: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. bad news: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bad news, bad news: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bad news: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Bad News: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (bad news)

noun:  News of unpleasant, unfortunate or sad events.
noun:  (idiomatic) An irritating, troublesome or harmful object, situation or individual.

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