badman
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noun
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Origin of badman
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Deacon is entertaining as a wannabe "badman" and the soundtrack is solid.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2011
Last week this edition carried a story about one Rocco Maggio, badman.
From Time Magazine Archive
In making the trek, Mitchum wrestles in turn with a mountain lion, a knife-wielding badman, several Indians, and Marilyn.
From Time Magazine Archive
A male actor can fly a plane, fight a war, shoot a badman, pull off a sting, impersonate a big cheese in business or politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
His feet were flipping and he yipped as if challenging some wolf badman in his dreams.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
He has jumped up from a restaurant table to blaze away at imaginary badmen with an imaginary six-shooter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mercury is so short that badmen in the Southwest, aping the Atlanta copper capers, have in the last four months stolen an estimated $70,000 worth of mercury from unattended gas-well meters.
From Time Magazine Archive
There Poker Alice, the gnarled old cigar-smoking card shark, fleeced many a dude; and there lived Deadwood Dick Clark, the legendary stagecoach driver who somehow always saved the gold from the badmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk tangle in their debonair fashion with a character who claims to be the last of the West's badmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
And they quit being badmen and buy ranches?
From Six Feet Four by Gregory, Jackson
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