Usually means: Persistent misfortune despite best efforts.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word bad luck:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. bad luck: Merriam-Webster
  2. bad luck: Vocabulary.com
  3. bad-luck: Wordnik
  4. bad luck: Wiktionary
  5. bad luck: Dictionary.com
  6. Bad Luck (Grimm), Bad Luck (Social Distortion song), Bad luck (disambiguation), Bad luck: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. bad luck: Rhymezone
  8. bad luck: FreeDictionary.org
  9. bad luck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. bad luck: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. bad luck: Dictionary.com
  12. bad luck: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  13. bad luck: Merriam-Webster

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Luck, Bad, bad luck: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bad luck: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bad luck: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (bad luck)

noun:  (uncountable) An undesirable turn of events (such as an accident); misfortune.

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