desperado
noun/ˌdespəˈrɑːdəʊ/
/ˌdespəˈrɑːdəʊ/
(plural desperadoes, desperados)
(old-fashioned)- a man who does dangerous and criminal things without caring about himself or other peopleTopics Crime and punishmentc2Word Originearly 17th cent.: pseudo-Spanish alteration of the obsolete noun desperate. Both desperate and desperado originally denoted a person in despair or in a desperate situation, hence someone made reckless by despair.
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