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- noun Plural form of
desperado .
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Examples
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Landing at the newly opened Crobar, nearly 5,000 'desperados' had shown up to indulge in the only spectator sport in which audience participation earns extra points.
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Landing at the newly opened Crobar, nearly 5,000 'desperados' had shown up to indulge in the only spectator sport in which audience participation earns extra points.
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The ANC said on Friday the victims were innocent and charged the attack was the work of "desperados" uncertain of their chances through the ballot box.
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But when our "desperados" increase the value of the land by their presence and by the labor they expend on it, they make it at the same time increasingly attractive as a place of settlement to people who are better off.
Der Judenstaat. English Theodor Herzl 1882
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Law Enforcement Officers Memorial website, complete with the story of the "desperados" who ambushed his father.)
U.S. News 2009
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The authors lightly, charmingly depict the lives of these corporate desperados, offering lessons other leaders can draw from their stories.
Inside 'How They Blew It' getAbstract 2010
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Those three desperados need to climb up in their cribs and put their pacifiers in their mouths ......
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You know, these aren't all desperados, you know, looking to get laid.
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The enormous quantities of extremely dangerous material must not get into the hands of ignorant people or desperados.
Karl Grossman: Atomic Energy: Unsafe in the Real World Karl Grossman 2011
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The enormous quantities of extremely dangerous material must not get into the hands of ignorant people or desperados.
Karl Grossman: Atomic Energy: Unsafe in the Real World Karl Grossman 2011
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