Meaning & use
rando
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An unfamiliar or randomly encountered person, especially a stranger who seems out of place.
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Some rando started chatting with me while I was waiting for the bus.
The party got weird once a bunch of randos showed up uninvited.
A note on using this word
A shortened, informal form of "random" used as a noun; it has become common enough in casual speech and online writing to appear in modern dictionaries.
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