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What is a desperado?

What is a desperado? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
  2. (chess) A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetual check.
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What folly it was to venture into the world with such a guide as this desperado, Whiskerandos!
He was a desperado, and it was said that he had killed at least two men in his time.
Someone who smokes a joint, on the other hand, is not usually a desperado.
Rodriguez wrote a script that imagined Trejo, his thuggish muse in desperado and Spy Kids, as a Mexican Charles Bronson.
With his moustache en croc, and his shoebrush hair, I have rarely beheld a more sensual-looking desperado.
Churchill is portrayed as an adventurer, a desperado, a drunk, a fantasist.

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