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Date: 1600-1700
Origin: desperate 'desperate person' (16-19 centuries), with the Spanish ending -ado

desperado

 noun
     
Related topics: Crime
des‧pe‧ra‧do plural desperadoes or desperados [countable]
SCC old-fashioned a violent criminal who is not afraid of danger
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