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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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He was a desperado, and it was said that he had killed at least two men in his time.
Churchill is portrayed as an adventurer, a desperado, a drunk, a fantasist.
The grave of Black-heart Bill, the desperado, who is buried there.
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.
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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