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Definition of bad guy
bad guy
noun
- a criminal. From the juvenile distinction between "good guys" (police, super heroes, etc.) and "bad guys". The conflict between the two groups is frequently played out in cartoons and movies.
Citation from "CSI Myths: The Shaky Science Behind Forensics", Popular Mechanics, Brad Reagan, August 2009 issue censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
Citation from "Might Have Been", Rookie Blue (TV), Season 2 Episode 2 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
Citation from "The New Guy", Warehouse 13 (TV), Season 3 Episode 1 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: criminal, hooligan, gangster, gangsta.
Last edited on Dec 22 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jul 27 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'criminal, hooligan, gangster, gangsta': | |
| Definitions include: Spelling variant of gangster. | |
| Definitions include: to sell stolen goods. | |
| Definitions include: a person who has not had their first kiss or has never French kissed. | |
| Definitions include: any football player who played for the Florida State University football team (the Seminoles) and was convicted of a crime. | |
| Definitions include: a female kingpin. | |
| Definitions include: a person who is good at arousing sexual interest in another person. | |
| Definitions include: a younger punk who is homeless or pretends to be homeless. | |
| Definitions include: a homosexual who portrays himself as a thug, for a variety of possible reasons. | |
| Definitions include: someone who is in a gang. | |
| Definitions include: to pretend, feign. | |
| Definitions include: to have, to take. | |
| Definitions include: euphemism for "suspect" in a criminal case. | |
| Definitions include: a dirty or messy person. | |
| Definitions include: a member of the Bloods gang. | |
| Definitions include: someone who pretends to be a gangster. | |
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Other terms relating to 'bad': | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "bad-ass." | |
| Definitions include: very good, excellent. | |
| Definitions include: a tough person or rebel. | |
| Definitions include: a disappointing event. | |
| Definitions include: a very attractive, cool, all-around good girlfriend-type. | |
| Definitions include: ongoing animosity. | |
| Definitions include: generic term for a specific object; "thing". | |
| Definitions include: a person in a position of authority who is strict or mean. | |
| Definitions include: a bad person. | |
| Definitions include: a day during which one can't make one's hair look good. | |
| Definitions include: an action that is likely to be harmful in a "karmic" way. | |
| Definitions include: an evil young woman with conspicuous sex appeal. | |
| Definitions include: vulva ("vagina"). | |
| Definitions include: to say bad things about another person. | |
| Definitions include: a bad person. | |
Other terms relating to 'guy': | |
| Definitions include: friendly way of referring to a fellow male. | |
| Definitions include: making fun of someone that did something stupid. | |
| Definitions include: humorous pretend Chinese food item. | |
| Definitions include: a person who is blamed for something bad. | |
| Definitions include: "fucking new guy". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "good game." | |
| Definitions include: a member of the police force, one's nation's own military, a super-hero, etc. | |
| Definitions include: an expert or person one goes to for advice or a paid specialist in a given field. | |
| Definitions include: Pronouced (guy-it) | |
| Definitions include: anything. | |
| Definitions include: a nice person. | |
| Definitions include: any person who does something considered inappropriate; "the kind of guy that does that." | |
| Definitions include: egotistical, way too cool. | |
| Definitions include: a member of the mafia (aka "mob.") | |
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