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Bad credit with debit card makes these (8)

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'bad credit' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
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(Other definitions for anagrams that I've seen before include ""Sword" from "words" and "seraph" from "phrase", for example" , "Words made by rearranging the letters of others" , "Mixed-up words as ragman have it" , "Words turned into other words" , "Word jumbles" .)

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