Pando

name, noun, slang

name, noun, slang ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A pandemic (chiefly in reference to the COVID-19 pandemic). Australia, UK, slang

    "We have crunched Covid-19 to Covid; the specific coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 is mostly now "coronavirus", and has been joined by "the pandemic" (for some in Australia, the "pando"), "'rona" and even "miss Rona"."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A clonal grove of Populus tremuloides in Fishlake National Forest, Utah.

Synonyms

All synonyms
trembling giant

Example

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"We have crunched Covid-19 to Covid; the specific coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 is mostly now "coronavirus", and has been joined by "the pandemic" (for some in Australia, the "pando"), "'rona" and even "miss Rona"."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Clipping of pandemic + -o.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin pandō (“I spread”).

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