Bolo

Bolo

Bolo may be:

* Bolo knife, a Filipino machete used for agricultural purposes and as a weapon.
* Bolo punch, a wide sweeping uppercut used in boxing.
* Bolo tie, decorative string with an ornament clasp worn around the neck, worn in the American West, also known as a bola tie
* a community or tribe in "bolo'bolo" (1983), by Swiss author P.M..
* Bolo, a slang term for Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War.

In military:

* Bolo Shell, a type of specialty shotgun shell
* Bolo (tank), a type of enhanced artificially intelligent tank appearing in the science fiction of Keith Laumer. The word was vaguely taken from the US Army use.
* B-18 Bolo, a United States Army Air Corps bomber aircraft from the 1930s

In places:

* Bolo, Central African Republic
* Bolo, Ethiopia, a village in Ethiopia
* Bolo, Tibet, a township in Tibet
* O Bolo, Galicia, Spain
* Viana do Bolo, Galicia, Spain

In people:

* Bolo Yeung, Chinese actor and martial artist
* Bolo, a Spanish footballer
* Bolo, nickname for Roberto Luongo - a goaltender for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League

In gaming:

* Bolo (computer game), a computer game in which players battle each other with tanks.
* Bolo (breakout clone), an enhanced clone of the classic Breakout computer game for the Atari ST

Acronyms:
* BOLO, an acronym used by law enforcement for "Be On The Lookout".

ee also

* Bolas, a throwing rope with weights at both ends to entangle prey.

* Bolo (slang), anything good in life; it is often yelled in a drunken rage.


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  • bolo — |ô| s. m. 1. Massa de farinha com ingredientes, cozida na forma ou frita. 2. Conjunto das entradas no jogo. 3.  [Informal] Palmatoada. 4.  [Figurado] Bolada, sorte, pechincha. 5.  [Farmácia] Pílula de grande tamanho. 6.  [Religião] Prestação… …   Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa

  • BoLo B&B — (Амстердам,Нидерланды) Категория отеля: Адрес: Lanseloetstraat 15 hs, Бос эн Ломмер, 1055 BB Амстерд …   Каталог отелей

  • BOLO — ist ein im Jahre 1987 für Atari ST und PC von Meinolf Amekudzi (geb. Schneider) entwickeltes Geschicklichkeits Computerspiel. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Handlung 2 Ziel 3 Preise 4 …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • bolo — bolo, la adjetivo,sustantivo masculino y femenino 1. Uso/registro: coloquial en México. Origen: América Central, México. Borracho. sustantivo masculino 1. Cilindro que se mantiene derecho sobre una base plana, usado en varios juegos consistentes… …   Diccionario Salamanca de la Lengua Española

  • bolo — material de contraste o medicamento intravenoso inyectado con rapidez en el aparato circulatorio Diccionario ilustrado de Términos Médicos.. Alvaro Galiano. 2010. bolo 1 …   Diccionario médico

  • bolo — elem. energie radiantă, radiaţie . (< fr. bolo , cf. gr. bole, rază, săgeată) Trimis de raduborza, 15.09.2007. Sursa: MDN …   Dicționar Român

  • Bolo — traitor, 1917, from Paul Bolo, French adventurer shot for treason April 17, 1918; used in World War I with reference to pacifist propagandists; later somewhat assimilated to BOLSHEVIK (Cf. Bolshevik) (q.v.) …   Etymology dictionary

  • bolo — bolo1 [bō′lō] n. pl. bolos [Sp < native name] a large, single edged knife used in the Philippines as a weapon or cutting tool; kind of machete ☆ bolo2 [bō′lō ] n. BOLO TIE …   English World dictionary

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