[Ads-l] badass, n.

[Jonathan Lighter]

Now can = 'courageous person; hero.'

2017 _The Young and the Restless _ (CBS-TV) (June 9): [Wife explains
desperate survival plan to bewuldered husband:] You have to step up and be
a badass! You have to be the biggest badass ever!"

In a related development, a current commercial (can't remember for what)
humorously describes an indomitable suburban mom as a "badass."

JL



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