rando
Americanadjective
noun
plural
randosEtymology
Origin of rando
By shortening; see -o ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Satan is also perturbed that some rando on Insta keeps commenting about sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s client list.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025
Would you interview a rando extremist who is against open-heart surgery in a story about cardiology?
From Slate • Aug. 17, 2022
Things don’t go as planned, and Kat winds up plucking a shlumpy rando from the audience to go through with the nuptials.
From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2022
It was when I finally dropped in on that mansion party and discovered that Howard Stern was, in reality, some rando named Matthew Friend.
From The Verge • Apr. 14, 2021
She once saved a mission by disabling an Indonesian passenger train using only “some rando stuff I found in the snack bar.”
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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