rando
Americanadjective
noun
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randos
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of rando
By shortening; see -o ( def. )
Example Sentences
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That same colleague in turn described how Altman was being replaced by Twitch boss Emmett Shear, or as she called him in her message "rando Twitch guy".
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
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
Because if I ever get a rare disease that causes my butt to break out in fluorescent hives or something totally rando like that, I know Maddie’s the only one who could save me.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
What an achievement for a humble encyclopedia, written by literal randos, to bear any sort of resemblance to big-budget entertainment.
From Slate ● Nov. 23, 2023
Notice Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin taking videos like a tourist from Boca Raton, while various other randos just stand around on the balcony as if they were at Disneyland.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2022
But I think it was an example of Viserys’s flaws coming into play, the same general obliviousness and strategic clumsiness that had him asking randos on the council for marriage advice and then ignoring it.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2022
Gone are the days when he would scroll through his mentions to see what randos — presumably ones with cats or cartoons as their avatars — would say about him.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
The world those randos proposed didn’t sound so bad to me.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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