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desperado

des.per.a.do \.des-p*-'ra:d-(.)o-, -'ra-d-\ n or des.per.a.does or 
   des.per.a.dos [prob. alter. of obs. desperate desperado, fr. desperate, 
   adj.] pl  : a bold or violent criminal; esp : a bandit of the western 
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