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desperado
noun- a person who is down and out; an unemployed person scrounging a living from day to day AUSTRALIA
- We talked about desperadoes. “I am fatally attracted to them,” I said. — Helen Garner, Monkey Grip, p. 107, 1977
- My uncle Robbie, a former hippy, turns up with a parental relief parcel one day and tells me he lived in the exact same house twenty years ago as a professional desperado in the early 1970s. — John Birmingham, He Died With a Felafel in his Hand, p. 69, 1994
- a person who exhibits desperation in seeking sexual partners AUSTRALIA
- To get by, she made and sold elaborate western shirts and danced with desperados in a lonely guys’ club “for eight cents a minute.” — People, p. 21, 21 December 1987
- Anyway Laura had a real date one night. Some desperado from the office. — John Birmingham, He Died With a Felafel in his Hand, p. 148, 1994
- a desperate gambler US, 1961
- — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 22, 1989
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