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bad man Chiefly U.S.
[bad a. 5, after Sp. malo hombre.]
A desperado, robber, gunman; a villain (see quots.). Cf. baddy and quots. 1599 and 1849 s.v. bad a. 5.
1855Santa Barbara (Calif.) Gaz. 28 June 1/4 The ‘bad man’ was floored by the weight of a walking stick that the quaker had been known to carry. 1859Brit. Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 22 Jan. 1/3 It was they who tacitly aided the bad men to rescue the prisoner. 1888Roosevelt Ranch Life Far West in Century Mag. Feb. 504/1 The ‘bad men’, or professional fighters, and man⁓killers, are of a different stamp, quite a number of them being, according to their light, perfectly honest. 1891E. S. Ellis Check 2134 ix. 59 It is much more pleasant to relate how such a young gentleman outwitted a ‘bad man’. 1906N.Y. Even. Post 9 Nov. 6 He even appointed a typical ‘bad man’—that is, manslayer—to office as a proof of his fondness for Arizona. 1910Mulford Hopalong Cassidy i. 9 They were good bad-men and bad bad-men the killer by necessity and the wanton murderer. 1922P. A. Rollins Cowboy iii. 54 The actual ‘bad man’ was ‘short on conversation’... All actual bad men were wholly untrustworthy, were natural killers, moral and mental degenerates, inhuman brutes who would slay for personal gain or merely to gratify a whim. 1958V. Kelsey Brit. Columbia rides Star 173 Graves of badmen who met justice-in-the-rough. |