badass

badass
/bad"as'/, Slang (vulgar).
adj. Also, badassed.
1. (of a person) difficult to deal with; mean-tempered; touchy.
2. distinctively tough or powerful; so exceptional as to be intimidating.
n.
3. a mean-tempered troublemaker.
[1960-65; BAD1 + ASS2]

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