A History of Short Words

From the New York Times Crossword Puzzle

BADASS

Sun, 27 Oct '24
Impressively tough, in slang
Tue, 28 Mar '23
Impressively tough and cool
Sun, 6 Nov '22
Intimidating in a cool way
Wed, 12 Oct '22
Supercool individual
Fri, 29 Oct '21
Fierce
Tue, 16 Feb '21
Supremely cool person