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badman
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n. (context historical US English) A violence-prone man who has had run-ins with the law; especially one from the Old West days of U.S. history.
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Badman is a word that was originally used in Kingston, Jamaica in the 1980s ska and Jamaican dancehall cultures. It was used to describe an anti-social youth who was non law-abiding and was feared by others. They were often gang members. After the integration ...
Usage examples of badman.
Maybe because of the kind of cop Harry Badman was, that too, but for me it was the window, then the conversation, then the man, then the park.
Harry Badman regarded me over his coffee mug, nodded as he set it down.
Harry Badman probably saw that as considered resolve, matched it to some idea of appropriate response.
So Longarm was counting flies on some horse apples by what might have been a kiva, filled in and almost totally erased by the rare floodwaters of many a year, when the famous badman Poison Welles came over to join him, holding a fresh but empty tin can.
So neither Ritter nor Heger could have ridden in whooping like a Texas badman while shooting at street lamps.
Oregon John as a guide over the mountains and that drifting badman, Quicksilver Quinn, as a badman.
But it seemed the badman in question was a member of another mob, which was engaged in pointing suspicion at Tant.
HILL shoved out his jaw fiercely, and became Outlaw Tant, Oklahoma Badman, as far as appearances went.
His feet were flipping and he yipped as if challenging some wolf badman in his dreams.
Billy Vail that tip about missing badmen and Miss Medusa Le Mat in the first place.
Marlowe was lying on his bed watching Audie Murphy in Bullet for a Badman and feeling increasingly like a vegetable when the talking head interrupted the movie.
Ironically, Doc Hoiliday lived through all the violence and bloodshed and died peacefully in bed, one of the few western badmen to do so.
To it flocked the gunslingers, gamblers, the badmen one jump ahead of the law, the soldiers and rustlers and the girls.
Besides, it was his job to run those badmen to ground, and he didn't really have the right to expose anyone else to the danger that might be awaiting him.
That Ketchum now he was one of the most ruthless badmen in the west, but he was also set in his ways, the way people get at Folsom.