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
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
Pahwa: Yes, Sima’s requests for especially her female clients to basically change their natures for the sake of compatibility with some rando really bothered me as well.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2020
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
And it is not up to Meghan to cure prejudice, whether it's coming from the tabloids, randos on the internet, or her own extended family.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2025
But in recent weeks, as many have started to flee Twitter, friends, friends of friends, work colleagues, and randos I met one time are all asking the question in reference to Mastodon.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 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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