bolo

English

bolo machetes

Noun

bolo (plural bolos)

1. A long, heavy, single-edged machete (Wikipedia).
2. A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide (Wikipedia).
3. A request for law enforcement officers to be on the lookout for a suspect.
4. Designating a type of punch; an uppercut.
   • 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 141:

     He jerked me off balance and the hand with the brass knucks came around in a looping bolo punch.

See also

• golok (Indonesian)
• machete
• parang
• tabak (Filipino)

Verb

bolo (third-person singular simple present bolos, present participle boloing, simple past and past participle boloed)

1. To attack or despatch with a bolo knife.
   • 1907, Robert Chambers, chapter 1/2, The Younger Set^[1]:

     Selwyn …, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around […] to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure […] and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.

Anagrams

• bool

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Bambara

Noun

bolo

1. arm

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Ido

Noun

bolo (plural boli)

1. bowl

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔlo

Noun

bolo m (plural boli)

1. bolus
2. cud

Anagrams

• lobo, oblò

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Portuguese

Etymology

From bola.

Noun

bolo m (plural bolos)

1. cake

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Spanish

Noun

bolo m (plural bolos)

1. bolus

Related terms

• bola