How long has the word "badass" been in play?

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Ha! Now you know, I learned what I needed and I learned that was a feature of dictionary.com.

Thanks! I never noticed that before.
 

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Where the hell have I been? I need to get around the internet a bit more.

Although, it might change me...
 

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The really time-wasting aspect of the Ngram viewer is that you can find books that contain the selected word/s. Just click on the dates under the graph.
 

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Earliest OED citations are 1955 for adjective and 1956 for noun.
 

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Amazingly, my Oxford Dictionary of Slang, 2003 reissued edition, does not even list Badass... Hmmm