Definition of "badman" []

• (US) A violence-prone man who has had run-ins with the law; especially one from the Old West days of U.S. history. (noun)

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• "He began to wish that his property might be attacked, feeling secure in his alertness, thinking that an over bold "badman" might come suddenly to the end of his depredations here."
• "Steve 'badman' Hessel (Community Relations Manager):"
• "The protagonists of these films violated a number of cultural taboos in the way they embodied the "badman" ethos-a mode of self-presentation"