desperado

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noun

Plural noun:

desperadoesdesperados

1.
A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
2.
(colloquial)A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, an addict, etc.
3.
(colloquial)A person who is desperately in love or is desperate for a romantic or sexual relationship.
4.
(chess) A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetual check.

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desperadoism

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From obsolete Spanish desperado, past participle of desperar, archaic form of desesperar (to despair), from Latin disperare (to despair, to lose hope), from prefix dis- + sperare (to hope). desperate.