Definition of "perdido" []

• A desperate man. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "David, I'm so glad to know that ya'll are okay. got an email from hilary saying ana and crew are in perdido. are you/fly. going to virginia?"
• "Properly it is the Span. "perdido," a youth cast off (Khala ') by his friends; though not so strong a term as "Harfúsh" = a blackguard."
• "To punish this daring, the Jinkomba brought a man masked like a white, with beard and whiskers, who is supposed to strike the stranger with awe: it was all in vain, I had learned to trill the R as roundly as themselves, and they presently left me as a "perdido," an incorrigible."