Bandito
Origin
From Italian bandito
Full definition of bandito
Noun
- A bandit, particularly of the type associated with Mexico
- 1994, March 18, Patrick Griffin, Let's Ban Smoking Outright, But I was at an age when a stinking twist of additive-soaked tobacco wrapped in brown paper could transform me into a kind of pale, stubble-free Irish bandito.
- 2007, September 19, Douglas Martin, Gene Savoy, Flamboyant Explorer of Ruins, Dies at 80, Gene Savoy, an amateur archaeologist whose success in finding some 40 Incan and pre-Incan ruins in Peru was matched by a flair for self-promotion that drew on his tales of peril in the jungle, his bandito mustache and Stetson hat, and a retinue of would-be explorers who paid to accompany him, died on Sept. 11 at his home in Reno, Nev. He was 80.