English

Noun

desperado ‎(plural desperadoes or desperados)

1. A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
   • 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, The present time

     The kind of persons who excite or give signal to such revolutions — students, young men of letters […], or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes, acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame, — might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch.

   • 1918, Willa Cather, My Antonia, Mirado Modern Classics, paperback edition, page 6

     Surely this was the face of a desperado.

2. (chess) A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetual check.

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Spanish

Adjective

desperado m ‎(feminine singular desperada, masculine plural desperados, feminine plural desperadas)

1. Obsolete spelling of desesperado

Verb

desperado

1. Obsolete spelling of desesperado