badass vs dare

badass

noun
  • A person considered impressive due to courage, skill, daring, audacity, and/or toughness. 

  • A belligerent or mean person; a person with an unpleasantly extreme appearance, attitudes, or behavior. 

adj
  • Having an extreme appearance, attitude, or behavior that is considered admirable. 

  • Belligerent and troublesome. 

dare

noun
  • The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness. 

  • A challenge to prove courage. 

  • In the game truth or dare, the choice to perform a dare set by the other players. 

  • A small fish, the dace 

  • Defiance; challenge. 

verb
  • To terrify; to daunt. 

  • To have enough courage (to do something). 

  • To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to 

  • To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them. 

  • To defy or challenge (someone to do something) 

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