bad ass
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- Alternative form of badass
- 2011, G.B. Sonny Clayton, Long Journey Back, →ISBN, page 50:
- He was said to be a bad ass, so I guess he had to try to take me down a notch.
- 2012, David R. Koepsell, Robert Arp, Breaking Bad and Philosophy: Badder Living through Chemistry, →ISBN:
- Shaving his head, he becomes the “bad ass” that his son addresses him as when he sees the chemo-induced haircut.
- 2013, Richard Quarantello, Surviving the Warzone: Growing Up East New York Brooklyn, →ISBN, page 27:
- Everyone in school was 'bad ass, and even if you weren't, you would have to act like you were a bad ass to keep everyone else off balance.
Adjective
[edit]bad ass (comparative more bad ass, superlative most bad ass)
- Alternative form of badass
- 2010, Lorna J. Brunelle, Dirty Bombshell: From Thyroid Cancer Back to Fabulous!, →ISBN, page 189:
- Pre-cancer, I always wanted to be a little more bad ass.
- 2010, Dale W. Rogers, Imminent Danger, →ISBN:
- Sure enough, big, ole, bad ass football player was already there with his shirt off warming up.
- 2015, Xavier Cockroachal Damon, You Is All a Bunch of A-holes, →ISBN:
- The people who flock to the movement do so with a bloodlust frenzy of who they see as this really bad ass dude, a cool bad ass dude because mass beheadings, well, gee, yeah, cool.
- 2016, ReBecca Benamati, The Bullier, →ISBN:
- He was a really bad ass kid because he was so bad in that school.