Related Clues:

• Adverse
• Severely
• Not feeling 100 percent
• Start of a promise, perhaps
• Bedridden, maybe
• Running a fever, usually
• ''___ be darned!''
• Bugged?
• Kind of pay, day or bay
• Out of work, maybe
• "___ bite!"
• Unfavorable, as fortune
• "--- be back!"
• ___-prepared
• Old-school hip-hop compliment