A Mexican bandit, especially as represented in films and popular culture.
‘From south of the Border I saw several Mexican bandidos arriving.’
‘He takes on a lot of different gun-toting opponents on his road to revenge, from soldiers to desert banditos.’
‘We had known it would be outside the town proper because Ben had come from a well-to-do family until banditos murdered his parents.’
‘I don't know why, but he'd slung a thick leather belt across each shoulder and resembled nothing so much as a young bandito marching home from a successful raid.’
‘All of these men, along with gunfighters, banditos, soldiers, Indians, lawmen, saloon girls, even ladies dressed in the height of fashion, gathered for one purpose.’
‘Kid Rio and Dad Longworth are banditos in Mexico in the 1880s.’
‘The Portuguese called the guerrillas turras or banditos, while the MPLA guerrillas denoted the Portuguese with the shortened word tugas.’
‘When they've finally drained the mountain of gold, the three men must survive the descent, the banditos and each other to turn their gold into untold wealth.’
‘Less than a month on the road, on a hot day in late February, the grungy banditos nervously approached the inspection station at the Arizona border.’
‘The grungy banditos had to escape Blythe, but they were afraid of getting pulled over on the way out of town.’
‘‘In prison they treated me like a bandito,’ he says.’
‘The first thing to strike you about their debut album is the picture on the front cover of the band portrayed as cartoon banditos.’
‘He looked like a bandito from a spaghetti western.’
‘He falls in with the treacherous, feral Tuco, a bandito with a price on his head.’
‘Miss Pouty Lips rescues the love of her life - renegade doctor Nick - from bandidos (wild-eyed, crooked-toothed, of course) in war-torn Chechnya, only to step on a mine while running for help.’
‘Yet Cohan admits he writes from a position of ‘utter privilege’ and it's something to see a side of Mexico that isn't all shantytowns and bandidos.’
‘‘Say,’ said a wise old head at one of our town meetings, ‘my nephew Looie would go after that bandito for 30 goats and a year's worth of free haircuts.’’
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