pando

1. AustraliaUKslangA pandemic (chiefly in reference to the COVID-19 pandemic).

   Pre-pando things were really going well. It's such a shame

   2023 May 9, u/Magnus_Veritas, “CTA Hoses Train Cars Down With Fresh Piss”, in Reddit, r/chicago, archived from the original on 09 May 2023

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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".

   [2020 August 20, David Shariatmadari, “Pando, Miss Rona and Covid Toe: how the language of a disease develops – shaped by fear and prejudice”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2021

   Had a radio job before the pando, now I don't. I went to school for it too. Now I gotta change gears and don't know howwwww

   2021 September 30, u/ThrustersOnFull, “what are some of the professions that are slowly dying ?”, in Reddit, r/AskReddit, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2024

   I really hope the next pando is more effective... ¶ I feel like COVID didn't come through on its promise.

   2023 December 4, u/TimothyOilypants, “Out in the wild”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2024

plural Pandos

1. A surname.

1. A clonal grove of Populus tremuloides in Fishlake National Forest, Utah.

   Synonyms: Trembling Giant