Bad guy

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    a villain, particularly an antagonist in a story. informal

    "Perversely, we love John Wick himself. That lethal, bereaved assassin is a good bad guy for our times, the natural extension of Tony Soprano, Walter White and all the other heroic antiheroes the culture has embraced."

  2. 2
    any person who is not on your side wordnet

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"Perversely, we love John Wick himself. That lethal, bereaved assassin is a good bad guy for our times, the natural extension of Tony Soprano, Walter White and all the other heroic antiheroes the culture has embraced."

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