baadass; baaadasss adjective very bad, very dangerous US
— Melvin Van Peebles, SweetSweetback’sBaadassSong, 1971
— Rapido BaadassTV, 1990s
[A] major attempt to re-brand the legendary Scottish Bard [Rabbie Burns] as an 18th-century baaaadaasss muthafucka, the Johnny Rotten of his time. — Uncut, July 2003