desperado
noun /ˌdespəˈrɑːdəʊ/
/ˌdespəˈrɑːdəʊ/
(plural desperadoes, desperados)
(old-fashioned)- a man who does dangerous and criminal things without caring about himself or other people
Topics Crime and punishmentc2暴徒;歹徒;亡命之徒 词源early 17th cent.: pseudo-Spanish alteration of the obsolete noun desperate. Both desperate and desperado originally denoted a person in despair or in a desperate situation, hence someone made reckless by despair.