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Badman

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname transferred from the nickname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A violence-prone man who has had run-ins with the law; especially one from the Old West days of U.S. history. US, historical

    "Billy the Kid was a badman."

  2. 2
    A gangster. Jamaica

Etymology

Etymology 1

From bad + man.

Etymology 2

English occupational surname for the servant of someone called Badd or Batt, but possibly, in some cases, a nickname for a reprobate, from bad + man.

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