des·pe·ra·do /ˌdespəˈrɑːdəʊ $ -doʊ/ noun (plural desperadoes or desperados) [countableC]
SCCBAD PERSON old-fashioned a violent criminal who is not afraid of danger 亡命之徒,暴徒
Examples from the Corpus
desperado• Then he eased himself through like a desperado entering a bar and ambled across the office, cracking quips like walnuts.• He has the sound of a desperado, she thought.• Suddenly, shockingly, the clergyman's son was a desperado.
Origindesperado
(1600-1700)desperate“desperate person”((16-19 centuries)), with the Spanish ending -ado