Usually means: Advice suggesting preferable course of action.
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  1. had better: Merriam-Webster
  2. had better: Collins English Dictionary
  3. had better: Wordnik
  4. had better: Wiktionary
  5. Had better, had better: Dictionary.com
  6. Had better: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. had better: FreeDictionary.org
  8. had ('d) better: ESL Idiom Page
  9. had better: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. had better: Idioms

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▸ verb:  (idiomatic, with bare infinitive, informal) Should; ought to; need to; must.

Similar:
should, ought, shold, shoulde, shou'd, shuld, shud, shood, need, shulde, more...

Opposite:
had worse, should not, ought not

Types:
should, ought to, must, more...

Phrases:
had seen better days, had better do, had the better, more...

Adjectives:
might, be, wont, sure, better, ust, med, custom, liable, 2d, no

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Similar:
should, ought, shold, shoulde, shou'd, shuld, shud, shood, need, shulde, more...

Opposite:
had worse, should not, ought not

Types:
should, ought to, must, more...

Phrases:
had seen better days, had better do, had the better, more...

Adjectives:
might, be, wont, sure, better, ust, med, custom, liable, 2d, no



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