bandito
Americannoun
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banditos
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bandito
1585–95; < Italian; bandit (or as pseudo-Spanish alteration of bandit )
Example Sentences
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He had survived bandito ambushes and cutthroat plots, shipwrecks and crash-landings and high-sea duels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Here you’ll be trying to eradicate the memory of the great Eli Wallach as the Mexican bandito Calvera.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2015
His name, which he rarely acknowledges, is John Russell: Hombre, his sobriquet, is bestowed by another nameless character, the Jamaican actor Frank Silvera’s live-wire bandito.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2015
Diego Rivera's painted version of the hero looks like a daintily picturesque bandito by comparison.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2013
Why make it easy for you to choose whether I am Zorro or el bandito when I am neitherf Your categories are too confining.
From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes
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