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badass

[bad-as] / ˈbædˌæs /
NOUN
(vulgar) distinctively tough person
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The video was posted the day after Bob and I attended an adoption event held by Badass Animal Rescue, the organization that, four months earlier, had transported Bob to Brooklyn from a Georgia shelter.

From Slate • Sep. 4, 2025

Her semi-autobiographical book Badass, released in 2010, encouraged young women to live life with attitude and confidence.

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2024

Joey Badass is in the midst of a major tour, but if you let him tell it, Delta Airlines is doing its best to throw him off.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2022

Fans even stuck by him through the American Badass era, a strange time when the Lord of Darkness rode a chopper and patriotically waved a US flag.

From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2020

By lunch, I’m starting to dig Badass Finch.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven