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badass, n. and a. slang. (orig. and chiefly U.S.).|ˈbædæs|
Also bad-ass.
[f. bad a. + ass n.2]
A. n. A tough, aggressive, or uncooperative person; a trouble-maker.
1956Amer. Speech XXXI. 191 A marine who postures toughness is sarcastically labeled a badass. 1969D. Wiebe Skyblue the Badass vi. 105 By the way, Mr. Badass, it's great of you to come out to our party. Faculty members usually don't come over here to talk to us. 1985Chicago Tribune 11 Nov. v. 3/1, I've been impressed with him since the first time I saw him fight. He's a real badass. 1992J. & M. Stern Encycl. Pop Culture 209/2 The Hell's Angels have become the definitive badasses of the road.
B. attrib. or as adj. Belligerent or intimidating; tough; bad, nasty. Also used approvingly: formidable, terrific, superlative (cf. bad a. I. 4 b.).
Sometimes acting merely as an intensifier.
1955J. Blake Let. 28 Dec. in Joint (1971) 110 Wanted to be a hard-nose badass type. 1964R. D. Abrahams Deep Down iii. 79 I'm that bad-ass so-and-so they call ‘Stackolee’... I'ma give you a chance to run, 'Fore I reach in my cashmere and pull out my bad-ass gun. 1969N.Y. Times 26 Jan. vii. 38/1 He suffers from the ‘badass’ syndrome, which is an inability to conform to the lunacy about him. 1972C. Buchanan Maiden xxii. 198 An older boy in a thistly beard and a bad-ass jacket followed them. 1974H. L. Foster Ribbin' v. 208, I set it up and you fell into my trap And I copped your dumb butt with my bad-ass rap. 1981Washington Post 16 July (District Weekly section) 8/1 We were known as bad-ass hard asses who could fight. 1993Guardian 6 May ii. 10/3 And just as you feel that Morrison's tilt at jazz is at the expense of some badass blues he dutifully..belts out a storming finale.
Hence ˈbad-assed a.
1971Playboy Aug. 32/3 Bo Diddley has been typed and hyped as..‘the most outrageous, bad-assed guitar man alive’, as the liner notes to his most recent disc have it. 1980E. A. Folb Runnin' down some Lines iii. 119 Like the pimp and his various alter egos, the hardhead or the bad-assed nigger or the badman has also been a folk hero both in the oral literature and daily lives of blacks. 1989L. Campbell & ‘2-Live Crew’ Dirty Nursery Rhymes (song) in L. A. Stanley Rap: the Lyrics (1992) 365 Papa Bear said, ‘Shit, bitch, you must think I'm sick Just get down here on your knees and suck this bad-assed dick.’ 1993Face Sept. 149/3 Geeky middle-class black boys fake up a lucrative career as bad-assed rappers. |