Had Best

Definition: Had Best

Had Best

Verb

1. Act in one's own or everybody's best interest; "You will do well to arrive on time tomorrow!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Had Best

You goddamned communist heathen, you had best sound off that you love the Virgin Mary, or I'm gonna stomp your guts out (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr)

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He did not know what they had best do.

In this desolate condition I advanced forward, and soon got upon ground, where I sat down on a bank to rest myself, and consider what I had best do.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "had best": you had best ♦ you had best go. Additional references.

Hungarian

legokosabb volna vmit tenned (you had best do sg), legjobb volna vmit tenned (you had best do sg). (various references)

Pig Latin

adhay estbay.(various references)

Romanian

ai face mai bine sã (you had best). (various references)

Spanish

más vale que te vayas (you had best go). (various references)

Thai

ควรจะทำบางสิ่ง (คำไม่เป็นทางการ) (had best do). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bashed, basted, bathed, bathes, deaths, hasted.

-2 letters: abets, ashed, bahts, based, baste, bated, bates, bathe, baths, beads, beast, beats, betas, beths, dates, deash, death, debts, hades, hadst, haets, haste, hated, hates, heads, heats, sabed, sadhe, sated, shade, stade, stead, tabes, tsade.

-3 letters: abed, abet, ates, bade, bads, baht, base, bash, bast, bate, bath.

+1 letter: bethesda, breadths.

+2 letters: bethesdas, boltheads, deathbeds, habitudes, sunbathed.

+3 letters: birthdates, broadsheet, deathblows, handbasket, shortbread, showboated, stablished, subtrahend.

+4 letters: breadthwise, broadsheets, established, featherbeds, handbaskets, shortbreads, subtrahends, switchblade, timberheads, whitebeards, whiteboards.

+5 letters: backstitched, birdwatchers, blandishment, disestablish, hairbreadths, hairsbreadth, handbreadths, handsbreadth, motherboards, straightbred, switchbacked, switchblades.