desperado
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /dɛspəˈɹɑːdəʊ/
desperado (plural desperadoes)
- A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
- 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, The present time
- The kind of persons who excite or give signal to such revolutions — students, young men of letters […], or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes, acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame, — might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch.
- 1918, Willa Cather, My Antonia, Mirado Modern Classics, paperback edition, page 6
- Surely this was the face of a desperado.
- 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, The present time
- (colloquial) A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, an addict, etc.
- 1981, Sam Grafstein, Dice Doctor
- The shortstops and desperados were not permitted to play in this marker crap game.
- 1981, Sam Grafstein, Dice Doctor
- (colloquial) A person who is desperately in love or is desperate for a romantic or sexual relationship.
- (chess) A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetual check.
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