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badman
Wiktionary
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.
Wikipedia
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 of Jamaican culture with that of the United Kingdom in the 1970s onwards, badman (along with several other words and phrases) became of common usage among youths in the UK, where it has gained particular popularity in London and the South-East. The words badman and very rarely badgirl are also associated with such UK music scenes as grime and dubstep.
The words are used in this context to describe a person who is either powerful, someone who commands respect in their neighbourhood, or someone affluent, any of which would make them stand out from the crowd. In the UK grime culture, MCs whose lyrics are particularly meaningful or persuasive are said to be a badman. The term can also be used sarcastically to describe somebody who has an inflated ego or brags about illegal acts.
The word has parallels with other terms, such as gangsta, rude boy, or bad boy.
Badman may refer to:
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Badman (EP), EP by boy group B.A.P
- "Badman", a single released from that EP
- Badman (slang), a Jamaican slang term
- Badman Recording Co., an American record label
- Badman Review, into Elective Home Education in England
- "Bad Man" (song), a single by R. Kelly
- Mr. Badman, a fictional character in The Life and Death of Mr Badman
- "Badman", a song by Roll Deep from Rules and Regulations
- The CollegeHumor parody of Batman
- The contemporary term, along with "gunman", for the people now called " gunfighters" or "gunslingers", in the 19th-century American frontier
People with the surname:
- Oliver Badman (1885–1977), Australian politician
- Richard Badman, British Olympic fencer
Badman is the third EP by the South Korean hip hop- R&B boy group B.A.P. It was released both online and offline on August 6, 2013 under the record label of TS Entertainment and distributing label of LOEN Entertainment. It charted number 1 on the Billboard World album Charts.
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.