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English
Noun
bad lot (plural bad lots)
- A bad person.
1875 October 16, Charles Dickens, “The Red House”, in All the Year Round:But he's a bad lot, is the master — a thorough bad lot, take my word for it, and I'm one as knows him well — too well, by a deal.
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary