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/Sounds like "MAHN" (as in "mark") + "doh" (as in "door")/

Meaning

The TV or gaming console remote control in Spain, the most-searched-for item in every Spanish home. It always vanishes between the couch cushions right when you urgently need to change the channel. In Latin America people say "control remoto," but in Spain it is always just "el mando."

Examples

Where is the TV remote? I have been looking for ten minutes.

The console controller ran out of battery again.

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Regional synonyms

A scatterbrained or impulsive person who acts without thinking and consistently makes a mess of things through pure recklessness. In Colombia and Venezuela, the atolondrado is always rushing but somehow always the last to arrive, with everything upside down and no idea what went wrong.