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DESPERADO (desperadoes)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does desperado mean? 

DESPERADO (noun)
  The noun DESPERADO has 1 sense:

1. a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)play

  Familiarity information: DESPERADO used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DESPERADO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

desperado; desperate criminal

Hypernyms ("desperado" is a kind of...):

criminal; crook; felon; malefactor; outlaw (someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime)

Domain region:

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)


 Context examples 


And now I began to feel that I was neglecting my business, that since I had been so foolhardy as to come ashore with these desperadoes, the least I could do was to overhear them at their councils, and that my plain and obvious duty was to draw as close as I could manage, under the favourable ambush of the crouching trees.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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