rando

[ran-doh]

adjective

1. random.

   We were followed by some rando creep.

noun

plural

randos 

1. random.

   online randos commenting on videos.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rando¹

By shortening; see -o ( def. )

Example Sentences

When Meghan says, “My friend Mindy is going to come by,” we know she’s not talking about any old rando.

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She once saved a mission by disabling an Indonesian passenger train using only “some rando stuff I found in the snack bar.”

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“I think we have to come to the conclusion that our pets will eat us,” says Carolyn Rando, a forensic anthropologist at University College London.

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“Everyone wants to think it’d be a while,” Rando says.

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Compiling these cases could be revealing, Rando notes.

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