bandito

[ban-dee-toh]

noun

plural

banditos 

1. (especially in Mexico and Central America) an outlaw; bandit.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bandito¹

1585–95; < Italian; bandit (or as pseudo-Spanish alteration of bandit )

Example Sentences

“There was one guy, he worked so often as a bandito that he had his own bandito costume. Because they paid you more if you brought your own costume,” Reyes said.

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"A Bandito is only a Bandito at the East L.A. station," she told the commission.

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“Don’t look into the Bandito aspect of the case,” Burson said he was told.

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“When I took office December of 2018, other than hearing about a Bandito tattoo, that’s about the extent of what I knew about Bandito, the subgroup,” he said.

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“Don’t look into the Bandito aspect of the case,” he said he was told.

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