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badass

bad·ass

Today it means: A belligerent or mean person; a person with an unpleasantly extreme appearance, attitudes, or behavior. Full definition →

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The story

From bad + ass (“buttocks; one's self or person”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.