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bravo

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1. bravo - Noun

2. bravo - Adjective

3. bravo - Verb

4. bravo - Interjection

5. Bravo - Proper noun

Meaning

A daring villain; a bandit; one who sets law at defiance; a professional assassin or murderer.

Well done! excellent! an exclamation expressive of applause.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I was familiar with that and "Rio Bravo.” "Rio Bravo” was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time. John Leguizamo

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. Bette Davis

I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing. Martha Smith

But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in Rio Bravo. Stephen Fry

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera. Seth MacFarlane

I started working at Bravo in 2005, when I was offered a job by Lauren Zalaznick, the network's chairman. She encouraged me to start a blog. I wrote behind-the-scenes gossip about 'Battle of the Network Reality Stars,' the first show I took on as head of current programming. Andy Cohen

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