An objectionable, despicable person.
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son of a bitch.
Any objectionable thing.
"This son of a bitch won't move!" Marty exclaimed as he grappled with the supermarket cart.
An impressive, daring, or admirable man.
I quickly checked around and I found Simon, he was hit but landed on a dead horse, the lucky son of a bitch could have been dead but the animal absorbed his fall and now he was on the ground trying to stay alive.
Used to express anger, contempt, astonishment, disappointment, dismay, etc.
Argh! Son of a bitch! I had just cut my arm.
Alteration of an earlier phrase represented by Middle English biche-sone (“son of a bitch”, literally “bitch's son”), calqued from Old Norse bikkju-sonr (“son of a bitch”).
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