Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A mean-tempered or belligerent person.
- adj. Mean; belligerent.
Wiktionary
- n. US, slang A mean or belligerent person; a person with extreme attitudes, behavior or appearance.
- adj. US, slang Having extreme appearance, attitude, or behavior that is considered admirable.
Etymologies
- bad + ass (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I'm trying not to use the term badass so much, but I just can't help it - both of these posters are badass!”
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“Don't take the word "badass" the wrong way; these men were unspeakably violent, often mass murderers and slaveholders.”
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“The riveted steel around the image is very nice, gives a nice industrial feel, lends a certain badass gravitas.”
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“Anyone who calls themself a badass is nothing but a cowardly little weakling b! tch.”
“Asking us to buy into Shia as a badass is like asking your wife to accept spousal rape as "surprise lovemaking”
“Also Ron Perlman did the voice of the main badass who killed Afro's daddy.”
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“I can appreciate the creativity that's gone into crafting Marla's fascinating origins, but seeing her be a badass is far more effective than hearing about it.”
“It's not the fact that you used the word badass, the entire first paragraph is you gushing about it.”
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“The app is coming soon (within a few months) and is "badass" -- as excellent as Hulu's website.”
“It seems this Rick Yune fellow, a certified Asian badass, is all set to star in Uwe Boll’s Alone In The Dark 2.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘badass’.
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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niglets, aw, flakey, shiznit, thatch, sexy, bummers, hotty, eargasms, ratchetry, weird, fab and 597 more... -
Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 2455 more... -
Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 3063 more... -
My Words
Words that I use regularly and consider mine.
zen, poser, savvy, angst, flustered, bitter, whatsoever, farfetched, indeed, scenario, inevitable, salvage and 134 more...
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The History of Cool
Words that mean "cool" around the world and through the ages.
cool, awesome, wild, stylin', groovy, neat, nifty, swell, great, tubular, radical, bitchin' and 188 more...
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Oofy
States of being
seeress, honey bucket, donkeyman, poopyhead, halfwit, vixenish, galoot, hoity toity, shitkicker, miserabilist, wanker, clueless and 261 more...
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bobodod's Words
cultie, screwery, gauge, wanker, truthiness, harangue, mediocre, ragamuffin, elysian, spoonerism, loquacious, apostle and 240 more...
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swag
one word music reviews
critical, official, swag, sick, slap, rugged, wicked, nasty, mad, filthy, sublime, ace and 33 more...
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naughtiness
not so nice
supercilious, macabre, rapscallion, mea culpa, fiasco, shenanigan, badass, cantankerous, egregious, hooligan, highfalutin, pernicious and 7 more...
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main word list
sightsee, mogul, deprecate, stylized, precious, parsimonious, parse, conceit, pretense, motif, onesy, tycoon and 32 more...
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Cool Words
pensive, understand, firefly, word, man-whore, queer, schwul, borough, dude, zeitgeist, doppelganger, horticulture and 12 more...
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american english
jesus handle, newscaster, motherfucker, rad, def, gerrymander, michigander, governator, jock, bullshit, badass, trash and 10 more...
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bad
chunk, pump, meatspace, pulp, clot, chub, chubby, thighs, gnocchi, cookie, plump, thick and 3 more...
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Sarilas's Words
chortle, serendipity, inept, retro, tenacious, penchant, mediocrity, claret, gust, pomp, circumstance, pageantry and 97 more...
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A list of words, as related by Surly ...
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alterboy's Words
alphabet, arithmetic, asymtote, acrimonious, asteroid, apostrophe, atrocious, allegorical, appetizing, accidental, aeorta, improvolution and 35 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for badass.

seanahan How can you forget Chuck Norris? Oct 20, 2007
chained_bear But noticeably not Sweet Sweetback, who is baadasssss. (See bad-ass.) Oct 20, 2007
bobodod Shaft, Conan, Gandalf, Clint Eastwood, etc. Oct 20, 2007