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In my recent experience badass is almost always used in irony. Opposite meaning. Literally bad (mal) ass (usually refers to butt, not donkey -- posterior), bad-jerk-person. However, this term is almost ALWAYS used to mean something actually good. Micheal Jordan is one badass basketball player. Salma Hayek is one badass actress.
However, often has some illicit connotations. Be careful around that guy, he is one badass street fighter.
That girl is one badass hacker. She cracked the security on by browser and stole my passwords.
Is there a similar meaning for cabrón? Tricky for me. A goat is usually a bad thing in common English. Like a sacrificial lamb. A pawn thatóó can be expended.
I recently saw it used in Spanish more like the English slang version of badass.
A person was looking for a "cabrón como PC". (Sorry, I don't even know how to type accents... native English speaker here...) He wanted what we might call in English a "badass hacker" to help with some gray-market PC issues.
See Awaken's response. Literally a bad person, but current slang use is almost positive, and ironic. Current USA use, more of a synonym of "master"
Last edited by Rusty; September 24, 2018 at 12:50 PM.
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