noun. (US) A violence-prone man who has had run-ins with the law; especially one from the Old West days of U.S. history.

"He began to wish that his property might be attacked, feeling secure in his alertness, thinking that an over bold "badman" might come suddenly to the end of his depredations here."

adman  admen  madmen  

colobus  conservators  darlin  firostefani  gunslingers  

bagman  barman  batman