badass

Definition

A belligerent or mean person; a person with an unpleasantly extreme appearance, attitudes, or behavior.

Etymology

From bad + ass (“buttocks; one's self or person”).

Example Sentences

• "Don’t mess with that guy, he’s a real badass."
• "A shake down officer, Sgt. Soaper, and Capt. Swarts, have been reading all my mail, including GCN (which is authorized to come in). Soaper has been sending the prison bad-asses to my cell to force me to have sex with them. Yesterday, Soaper opened my door and 2 prisoners came in and raped me. Capt. Swarts told me that he was going to make me pay for writing letters to GCN and that there was nothing anyone could do about it."
• "There are badasses, and there are badasses. Dothan is one of the latter, from a family full of badasses. I'm not saying he isn't a decent sort. He's fully rational, not like his brother Curtis. But Christ, when the sombitch gets mad …"