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desperado

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9
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/dɛspəˈɹɑːdəʊ/ (UK)

Definition of desperado

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noun

  1. A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
    “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.”
    “Surely this was the face of a desperado.”
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noun

  1. A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
    “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.”
    “Surely this was the face of a desperado.”
  2. (colloquial)A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, an addict, etc.
    “The shortstops and desperados were not permitted to play in this marker crap game.”
  3. (colloquial)A person who is desperately in love or is desperate for a romantic or sexual relationship.
  4. A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetual check.

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Etymology

From obsolete Spanish desperado, past participle of desperar, archaic form of desesperar (“to despair”), from Latin disperare (“to despair, to lose hope”), from prefix dis- + sperare (“to hope”). Doublet of desperate.

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