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A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West. / (colloquial) A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, an addict, etc.

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desperado

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Source Word

desperado

IPA(Pronunciation)

/dɛspəˈɹɑːdəʊ/

Noun

colloquial

Japanese Meaning

荒々しい無法者（特にアメリカ西部の南部地方のアウトロー） / 絶望的な状況にある人、追い詰められた者

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The desperado rode into town at dawn, his spurred boots echoing on the wooden boardwalk as locals hurried inside.

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その大胆な無法者は夜明けに町へ入り、拍車のついたブーツの音が木製の歩道に響く中、住民たちは中に急いだ。

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A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.

The kind of persons who excite or give signal to such revolutions — students, young men of letters […], or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes, acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame, — might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch.

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