badass

badassnoun/ˈbædæs/

• 1

  slangA belligerent or mean person; a person with an unpleasantly extreme appearance, attitudes, or behavior.

  • Don’t mess with that guy, he’s a real badass.
  • A shake down officer, Sgt. Soaper, and Capt. Swarts, have been reading all my mail, including GCN (which is authorized to come in). Soaper has been sending the prison bad-asses to my cell to force me to have sex with them. Yesterday, Soaper opened my door and 2 prisoners came in and raped me. Capt. Swarts told me that he was going to make me pay for writing letters to GCN and that there was nothing anyone could do about it.
• 2

  slangA person considered impressive due to courage, skill, daring, audacity, and/or toughness.

  • "I'm a badass." (Jack Nicholson to a New York friend, early 1973.)
  • The Oakland Raiders are one of the few teams that I have any feelings for besides the Steelers. Nowadays they're a bunch of wannabe badasses, but back in the day they were something to behold.

badassadj/ˈbædæs/

• 1

  slangBelligerent and troublesome.

  • Uncle Jr. was really quiet. Probably because he was a junior high school teacher and was around badass, hollerin' kids all day.
  • [There were] lots of really, really bad, badass people … I did not want to be a part of it.
• 2

  slangHaving an extreme appearance, attitude, or behavior that is considered admirable.

  • That tough guy looks badass.
  • "FAIRY WING GLITTER!!!" / *sparkle* / "It's hard to look bad-ass when using fairy powers..." *sigh*