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bad' man"

Older Use.
1. (sometimes caps.) the devil.
2. the bogeyman.

Pronunciation: (bad'man"), [key]
—n.,
—pl. -men.
a bandit, outlaw, desperado, etc., esp. in the early history of the western U.S.