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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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Here, the acclaimed director of desperado and Sin City offers up his top cult films.
What folly it was to venture into the world with such a guide as this desperado, Whiskerandos!
He was a desperado, and it was said that he had killed at least two men in his time.
The grave of Black-heart Bill, the desperado, who is buried there.
Rodriguez wrote a script that imagined Trejo, his thuggish muse in desperado and Spy Kids, as a Mexican Charles Bronson.
A desperado, seeking to kill him, threw down on him as he was entering a saloon.

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