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badding up

badding up is the present participle and gerund of bad up.

Meaning of bad up

Verb

bad up (third-person singular simple present bads up, present participle badding up, simple past and past participle badded up)

  1. (slang, transitive) To badmouth; criticise or malign
    • I ain't gotta be a rapper with a chain
      'Cause the rules are kinda different when you're baddin' up the game.2019, Stormzy, Vossi Bop
  2. (UK, slang) To make (someone) paranoid or messed up, e.g., emotionally or from drugs.

Questions about badding up

What is badding up the present participle and gerund of?
Badding up is the present participle and gerund of bad up.

Words near badding up in the dictionary

  1. Baddidarach
  2. baddie
  3. baddies
  4. Baddiley
  5. badding
  6. badding up
  7. baddish
  8. baddishness
  9. badditude
  10. baddy
  11. baddy two shoes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: badding up (page history and authors); bad up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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