Desperado

Definitions

1. A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
2. A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, an addict, etc.
   colloquial
3. A person who is desperately in love or is desperate for a romantic or sexual relationship.
   colloquial
4. A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetual check.

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Examples

“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.”

“The shortstops and desperados were not permitted to play⟳ in this marker crap game.”

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