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What is a desperado?

What is a desperado? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
  2. (chess) A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetual check.
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A desperado, seeking to kill him, threw down on him as he was entering a saloon.
Someone who smokes a joint, on the other hand, is not usually a desperado.
What folly it was to venture into the world with such a guide as this desperado, Whiskerandos!
Here, the acclaimed director of desperado and Sin City offers up his top cult films.
Rodriguez wrote a script that imagined Trejo, his thuggish muse in desperado and Spy Kids, as a Mexican Charles Bronson.
He commented on their arduous life, the patrol of the plains, the control of the desperado, the winter life in the wooden-shack barracks at twenty below zero.

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