OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 23220

desperado

/dɛspəˈɹɑːdəʊ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
desperado
A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
Surely this was the face of a desperado.
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 disconte…
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